B (7:18)
My name is Mubashir and I never expected to be standing in front of all these cameras and microphones. But what happened to me cannot stay quiet. What happened to me was unjust, uncalled for. I was simply on my lunch break. I literally went downstairs from my building. I wasn't even outside for mere seconds before I seen a masked person running at me full speed. He tackled me, pushed me inside the restaurant, like as you can see in the video. I told him, I'm a US Citizen. What is going on? He didn't seem to care. He dragged me outside through the snow while I was handcuffed, restrained, helpless, and he pushed me to a ground and he put me in a chokehold. And he asked me, we have to verify if you're a US Citizen because I believe you're an illegal citizen because you ran for me. But as you can see in the videos that will be released, I'm simply just standing still. I asked them, okay. They said, let me take a picture of you to scan your face to see if you're a U.S. citizen. I declined because how will a picture prove I'm a US Citizen? I told him, I have my passport, it's in my phone. Can I open and show you? He declined. I told him, can I give you my name and my date of birth? He declined. So he took me on the other side of Cedar and they kept me there for 45 minutes, just asking, we have to scan your face. We have to scan your face. After about a whole hour, they said, okay, we can do your fingerprints on our phones. And the fingerprints are not working. So I guess they waited on 20 more minutes. And they said, we're going to take you into Bishop Henry all the way in Bloomington. While they were driving me all the way there, they were, they were wasting time. They kept going back in the same highway. I told them, are you guys Lost. But they said, yeah, this is our first time taking someone in. And I told. They had the maps out and everything, and they were trying to intimidate me. So after I arrived at the facility, they parked up. The gate was closed, and they made me step outside in the snow while it was snowing. And they said, we have to scare your face or we're not gonna let you inside the car. So I had no choice. I let them scan my face. I was so cold. I just fished, and I guess it didn't work. So they finally took me inside the facility. They kept me there for another 20, 30 minutes. At that time, I asked for water. They declined my water. And I also asked for medical assistance because my hands were numb and my back was hurting because he pushed me down and he put his whole body weight. They told me, we don't have any medical staff at the facility. Some lady listened. I told her, yo, can you turn on my phone? I have my passport card. And she finally let me use my phone. I showed her, and she said, okay, we still have to do your fingerprints. I did my fingerprints, and they finally let me go. I asked them, can you take me back to where you picked me up from? They said, no, you have to walk in the snow. Like they were being serious. I asked three times. They said, no, you're walking. And, yeah, all I did was step outside as a Somali American. And I just got chased by a masked person. He didn't identify himself. He didn't say, ice, stop. I felt like I was getting assaulted. I was getting kidnapped, and that's exactly what it was. And the way they were treating me, it was inhumane. They dragged me across the road. They slammed me to the ground, choked me. I was uncalled for. There's also more videos of someone came out. They had a copy of my passport. And I told the agent, he asked my passport copy, and he said, we don't care. We're still taking you in. And they kept me for two hours. And if this is what's happening to a US American citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones when there's no one around to witness what they're doing. But thankfully, my incident was caught on cameras. It was posted all over social media. This shouldn't be happening to anyone. We shouldn't feel targeted just because we're Somalis, man. That's not right.
