INTERVIEW: ‘We’ve Seen Our City Set Ablaze’

[Deeq A.]

Ilhan Omar, the left-leaning freshman congresswoman from Minnesota, represents Minneapolis and its suburbs, where the wave of protest against police violence and brutality — the systemic killing of African-Americans by American police — first bloomed in the wake of the hideous murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. New York spoke to Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia as a young teen in 1995, about her city’s history of inequality and of civil unrest, and about the direction she and her colleagues want to lead the Democratic Party in the fight against structural racism and injustice.

Source: Hiiraan Online