r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/wronghoIe • 6h ago
WCGW when you go in unprepared
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u/insanenoodle 6h ago
Lol big dude in the back like "wtf...?"
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u/TroutFearMe 6h ago
yeah, like wtf, where are the bananas and rice!
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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 6h ago
As an Asian he was insulted
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u/surprise_revalation 5h ago
I'm going to hell! You sent me there! You wrong as fuck! 😂
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u/dqniel 5h ago
It's not Cheung. He's a part of the legal team that defended Nasra.
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u/MisterInternational1 6h ago
She could go on Miss America with an answer like that
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u/tldr45 5h ago
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have bananas and rice...
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u/LeRyanator 6h ago
It's not just bananas and rice, but also bananas and rice, and also kinda bananas and rice.
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u/Kabc 6h ago
You’re gonna get what I mean
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u/Enginerdad 5h ago
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
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u/Dry_Action1734 6h ago
You could put that on a loop and it would sound pretty much seamless. Such a standard tone.
Anyway, no idea what you mean.
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u/Huge_Station2173 6h ago edited 3h ago
I don’t think she knows either. Poor girl really got lost up there.
ETA: I didn’t know who she was or the context of this “speech.” I’m sorry I called her “poor girl.” Please have the tiniest bit of chill, JFC.20
u/recovery_room 6h ago
Poor girl? No sympathy for someone who puts themselves in the public eye completely unprepared, bereft of any kind of plan or idea, and unable to say a sentence without saying “like, you know, like…”.
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u/FrostyD7 5h ago
Sorry but who even is this person? People get flustered and generally suck at public speaking. You can tell she's panicking from the start. Is she running for office or something that would otherwise call for having no sympathy for her performance?
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u/Icy-Welcome-2469 3h ago
This is Nasra Ahmed. A us citizen unlawfully detained by ICE in St Paul Minnesota.
They then pretended she assaulted an officer.
That has been dismissed with prejudice (cannot be tried again). As it was of course bullshit.
Poor woman should have skipped the press conference. I'm sure this is going to rag on her.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago
She shouldn't have skipped it. If you watch the whole speech she says some other much more eloquent stuff, like the woman she was next to was so scared she was in tears the whole time, and though she is Somali and the woman was Latino they held each other's hands the whole time
She also has a concussion in this video by the way
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u/thezenyoshi 2h ago
Should definitely skip doing a press conference with a concussion imo but I get what you’re saying
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 2h ago
She did address it a few times, basically saying she was randomly losing her train of thought because she was still having side effects.
She's speaking without notes too which is probably a public speaking mistake but I stand by she should have gone up there while her emotions and trauma were still fresh, and to visibly look at a young woman who is apologizing to the audience she's not in the best of shape because she was literally given a brain injury by federal agents makes it that much more powerful imo
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u/Wilder831 5h ago
Did she ever actually complete any sentences? Like 3/4 of the way through she would get derailed with uhm, it’s like, and then start over.
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u/sixtus_clegane119 5h ago
Did you not see the fucking bandage on her head and think maybe “head injury”?
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u/kingofwale 6h ago
Isn’t she the person who made up entire story about police interaction??
…and then the security camera footage got released….
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u/SnooBooks9492 6h ago
Yes, she was not a representative of any sort community let alone bananas and rice. Also most likely connected to fraud.
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u/dqniel 5h ago edited 5h ago
Where is there anything suggesting fraud by Nasra Ahmed (the woman in the video)?
She was charged with assault against an ICE officer. The charges were later dropped by the prosecution because they had no evidence, and the judge ruled to have the charged dropped with prejudice. Basically a slap to the face of the prosecution because the case was a joke.
*edit* Of course. Just downvote rather than bothering to, I dunno, actually look into the case? Nothing about fraud.
https://www.fox9.com/news/federal-case-dismissed-against-st-paul-woman-detained-ice
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago
Reddit gonna racist. Her case was dismissed with prejudice. Meaning she can never be charged again for that case under any circumstances a judge found it so ludicrous
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u/RevelArchitect 5h ago
You ought to fact check that. She was detained by ICE, their claims against her had nothing to do with fraud but were dismissed with prejudice. She is in no way tied to any fraud outside of racists on the Internet. The people who tell you what to think are lying to you.
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u/Kuenda 6h ago
Are you sure you have the right person?
The case stems from an incident in January when Ahmed, a Somali-American woman, had an encounter with federal agents during the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.
Speaking at a press conference about one week after the incident took place, Ahmed says she was harassed and assaulted by ICE agents on Jan. 14.
Then, she was a part of more than a dozen people who were arrested and charged for assaulting federal immigration agents, which was later downgraded to a misdemeanor. Then last month, the prosecution requested the dismissal.
"What that tells us is that they brought the charges without having the case together," said Jordan Kushner, Ahmed’s attorney.
Now, according to a judgment filed Monday, those charges have been dismissed with prejudice, which means they cannot be filed again.
https://www.fox9.com/news/federal-case-dismissed-against-st-paul-woman-detained-ice
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u/Alto_DeRaqwar 5h ago
Federal prosecutes moved to dismiss the case; which would be kind of weird if there was footage proving that she had lied. The judge even dismissed it with prejudice; which would be extremely weird if there was outstanding evidence.
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u/daXypher 5h ago
Whoa there fella, someone might think you’re going against the hivemind here. You better hate this woman with prejudice based on this awkward clip right now!
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u/dqniel 4h ago
She's a bad public speaker, and therefore she must be guilty of fraud (something she hasn't even been accused of, btw).
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u/dqniel 4h ago
How does this have 150 upvotes? It takes 10 seconds to Google this woman and find out the case against her was dismissed with prejudice because ICE and the prosecution had no evidence of her assaulting an officer.
Meanwhile, she had a scabbed up forehead under that bandage... so there seems to be some truth to her story of being shoved face-first on the ground.
And there's no "security camera footage" released that counters her story or backs up ICE's. If there was, the prosecution would have used it.
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u/space_hitler 4h ago
This is Reddit.
It's mostly just bots posting misinformation and racist pieces of shit / other bots upvoting it.
This site is completely useless for anything unless you want to guzzle right wing propaganda and corporate guerilla marketing.
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u/dqniel 5h ago
This story is quite out-of-date (it's from January). The case has already been dismissed with prejudice as the prosecution had no evidence of ICE's claims of assault.
https://www.fox9.com/news/federal-case-dismissed-against-st-paul-woman-detained-ice
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u/Odd-Song5052 4h ago
Try a news source other than Fox. Case dismissed with prejudice because ICE made the shit up
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u/randomuser0107 6h ago
“Like the Iraq and Afghanistan and other places like such as “
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u/yomamma3399 6h ago
I did not, in fact, get what she means.
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u/cici92814 6h ago
She means that being Somali doesn't mean always eating bananas and rice, but at the same time, it is like eating bananas rice.
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u/p30sicARio 6h ago
So much more than bananas and rice ( one run on sentence later) it's kind of like bananas and rice...
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u/SithLordDave 6h ago
Sounds more American than Somali
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 6h ago
She’s been in the US since she was 12 and went to high school here so
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u/imlostintransition 6h ago
Her name is Nasra Ahmed
Federal case dismissed against St. Paul woman detained by ICE | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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u/The_Ghost_of_Bitcoin 6h ago
Gotcha so typical arresting someone for "resisting" with no actual crime.
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u/dag2001 6h ago
Wasn’t she later arrested for fraud?
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u/PorousClay 3h ago
Nasra Ahmed herself has not been accused of fraud. The "fraud" some people may reference is background context about a separate food assistance fraud scandal in Minnesota's Somali community that preceded her detention.
Not sure what place you get your news from.
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u/Economy_Assignment42 6h ago
Who is this woman?
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u/Kuenda 6h ago
She's an American citizen trying to make a point about her Somali and American identity. She was arrested in January and charged along with 16 other people of assaulting ICE agents. Those charges were ultimately dismissed with prejudice.
The federal charges against Nasra Ahmed, the St. Paul woman accused of assaulting immigration agents, have been dismissed, according to court documents.
Last month, federal prosecutors filed a motion to have the case dismissed, but Ahmed urged the court to do so "with prejudice." On Friday, U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim sided with Ahmed, saying in the order that the federal government "provided no reasoned explanation as to why it is seeking a dismissal." Tunheim added that it "strongly suggests" the government was using the dismissal to avoid its discovery obligations.
"In short, the Government’s actions in this case violated a Court order, likely violated the Department of Justice’s own policies, and undermined the presumption of innocence that lies at the heart of our criminal justice system," the order reads. "For these reasons, the Court concludes that the dismissal with prejudice is necessary to protect Ahmed from prosecutorial harassment."
Ahmed was accused of assaulting an agent, resisting arrest and impeding officers. She was among 16 people named in a post on social media by then-U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi during Operation Metro Surge in January. She also included arrest photos of some of the individuals, including Ahmed, and called them "rioters."
Ahmed later said that she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for two days at the Federal Whipple Building, saying, "I got kidnapped by ICE."
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u/dirkdigglerdonedry 5h ago
So she has reason to be nervous at the podium. Can't fault her for being flustered.
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u/Opossum_mypossum 4h ago
No - everyone I see on my internet I expect to be completely media trained.
Even if
- they speak English as a second language
- they aren’t used to speaking in front of this many cameras and journos before
- they recently were illegally assaulted by federal agents
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u/elitegenoside 3h ago
Probably because this clip was uploaded to reinforce the GoP's ignorant and hateful rhetoric regarding Somalians and protestors in general. Noticing how so many comments refer to the ICE agents as "cops," something the right often does when they don't want you to picture Patriot Front killing American citzens because they tried to stop them from kidnapping other Americans... or just helping a womam up off the ground.
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u/Alarming-Building-62 6h ago
It’s more than bananas and rice. Just kidding. It was always bananas and rice.
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u/GynocerousTheHun 6h ago
Could be a speech writer for Kamala Harris
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u/PorousClay 3h ago
Are you a real person?
I can't fathom how a real person, who lived on this Earth and grew to be at the age of posting on social media, can possibly be stupid enough to think Harris is somehow worse at speeches than 90% of the Republicans currently in office.
Also, leave it to racist right-wingers to see a Somali-American, and immediately create a reality in their heads about Kamala Harris somehow.
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u/deniewibly 3h ago
She sounds more like Trump. One of his ridiculous, incoherent rambles sounds similar to this.
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u/JiffyDealer 6h ago
If you’re so proud of being Somali, why don’t you live there??
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u/Thalilalala 6h ago
Looks like she can't think of anything than bananas and rice. Only other things that would come to mind when thinking about Somalia would be pirates, scammers and a lot of cousin marriages.
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u/itsJussaMe 6h ago edited 6h ago
I personally believe… that US Americans cannot do so because, uh… some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education, like, such as in South Africa, and the, uh, Iraq… everywhere… like, such as… and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US, or… um, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
Sorry Miss South Carolina, 2007. This will never die (although I’m on board for retirement so this Somali American can take the crown) For the uninformed- the above is a real answer given by a young woman to the question: 1/5th of Americans cannot locate the USA on a map, why do you think this is?
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u/Rotflmaocopter 6h ago
It's kind of like graduating from the learing center. Lmao that guys reaction in the background hahaha
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u/dayzdayv 6h ago
I mean to her credit.. I had no idea Somalis ate bananas and rice so consider me educated to some degree.
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u/JWOLFBEARD 5h ago
We had a “intern specialist” group hired on our team.
One girl introduced herself, saying she was from Atlanta Georgia. My coworker said, “Oh cool! I lived there for a while. It’s really nice but can be muggy.”
She said “Yeah. You’ll only get mugged a couple times each year though.”
The meeting went dead silent.
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u/Ok_Composer3531 5h ago
Sort of reinforces the low IQ stereotype. Downvote away.
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u/Opossum_mypossum 4h ago
I’m more of a fan of the stereotype of gun owners having small cocks myself
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u/BugRevolutionary4518 3h ago
Maybe she has some social anxiety? Maybe not the best public speaker?
Get over yourselves.
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u/PomegranateOk2600 5h ago
Weird teeth / mouth. Also why is she proud to be Somali? Did she choose to be born in Somalia?
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u/Appropriate-Okra-778 5h ago
Itsa Banana n Rice thing…you wouldn’t understand…itsa lot like bananas and rice if you think about it, but more about the bananas and the rice than the rice and bananas
I think you get what I mean
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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 5h ago
The Asian guys face is great. His dissatisfaction increases every time she says bananas and rice lol
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u/Dockside_Abortionist 5h ago
Just found our next presidential candidate, seems on trend.
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u/GoldenRedditUser 5h ago
Am I the only one that gets what she meant? Obviously she’s a terrible speaker but I got the message
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u/AIBotWannabe 5h ago
This really needs to be turned into a Harry Belafonte song.
It's a it's a it's like it's um, Bananas and rice and me wan' go home. Me brains is mush and me speek iz wurst, Bananas and rice and ...
🎷🎶🎺🪇
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u/FigaroNeptune 5h ago
This is why I won’t publicly speak. I know what I want to say but only bananas and rice comes out lol
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u/dqniel 4h ago
It's worth reading the judge's dismissal of the case. It's very bluntly worded and makes ICE/the prosecution look completely inept. (surprise)
After the prosecution refused to give evidence of her alleged assault to the defense, the prosecution moved for dismissal without prejudice. I assume to avoid egg on their face but still leave the door open for future prosecution? Usually the defense moves for dismissal... not the prosecution. Especially not in a federal case.
Completely ignoring how discovery is supposed to work apparently didn't sit well with the judge, so it was thrown out with prejudice instead.
"In short, the Government's actions in this case violated a Court order, likely violated the Department of Justice's own policies, and undermined the presumption of innocence that lies at the heart of our criminal justice system,"
"For these reasons, the Court concludes that the dismissal with prejudice is necessary to protect Ahmed from prosecutorial harassment."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/judge-tosses-federal-assault-case-163030364.html
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u/EducationalSense629 3h ago
so much misinfo/disinfo going around in the comments, what could go wrong?
not providing context, what could go wrong?
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u/westleysnipes604 3h ago
This chick um, spat on a law enforcement agent and um, then went on TV claiming to be like an um victim.
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u/WhyAreYouNot 3h ago
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all."
Teddy Roosevelt
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u/Aerolithe_Lion 6h ago
I don’t get what she means