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Ilhan Omar: “When you are, you know, eight, and you are crossing multiple…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. ILHAN OMAR Talks Terror In Minneapolis And Becoming American

Published | Video Starts at 30:35

I feel bad for saying, me too, but. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, there's different things that happen, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think, you know, when you. When you are, you know, eight, and you are crossing multiple checkpoints and people have guns pointed at you, you know, like, you just develop a sense of, like, I got through that, you know, what. What else could happen? Reminds me a lot of when my dad wouldn't get me boxer shorts when I was in sixth grade. You know, we've both been. We have different stories and we've been through. (30:35–30:56)

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Asserts that she experienced crossing multiple checkpoints with guns pointed at her at the age of eight.

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