AHMED BIN HASSAN was keeping to himself, sitting in the car he was driving for Uber at the airport in Minneapolis. A few hours earlier, elsewhere in the city, an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
Bin Hassan, a Somali American, was intently watching videos of the killing, which were rapidly circulating on social media, when he heard a knock on his car’s window.
It was a Border Patrol agent.
Stunned, Bin Hassan opened the door and asked the agent, part of a massive crackdown on immigrants in the Twin Cities following President Donald Trump’s racist comments about the Somali community there, what she wanted. The subsequent confrontation between Bin Hassan and over a dozen masked ICE agents has since gone viral.
Having seen the video, I’m so fucking impressed with that guy! I mean, the brass balls to stand up to that many border patrol agents staring down at him and say “no! Show me your id mother fucker!”.
And honestly, what could be better proof that he’s an American than that, exercising his free speech right in the authorities’ tactical masked faces. That dude is a grade-A badass American hero as far as I’m concerned. This man, Ahmed Bin Hassan is a perfect representation of the America I want to believe in.