Aliya Rahman, a Minneapolis woman who says she was badly hurt by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a January traffic stop, was removed from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday night after she stood up in the public gallery.
It was a small gesture in a tightly choreographed evening, and it landed like a warning flare. Rahman's removal folded two volatile stories into one moment, Trump's unsubstantiated claims about fraud in Minnesota and a growing row over how federal immigration agents use force, particularly against people with disabilities.
