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Suspect held for attacking Dem rep Ilhan Omar
The Morning Standard
|January 29, 2026
A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic US Rep Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground on Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month.
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The audience cheered as the man was pinned down and his arms were tied behind his back. In video of the incident, someone in the crowd can be heard saying, “Oh my god, he sprayed something on her.”
This story is from the January 29, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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