""My name is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, I am a United States citizen," he screams in the video. "They're restraining me, spraying me and beating me. I have done nothing.""
"'If you kill me in this street,' he shouts, before an agent blasts him in the face with a chemical agent."
""My hope was to have a record of what was happening," Allen said in an interview, days after the incident. "If I was gonna die, I just wanted to make it incredibly clear who I was, what the reality of the situation was, so it's as hard as possible for them to spin it.""
On Jan. 24, shortly after ICE agents killed Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti and days after Renee Good's slaying, Minneapolis rapper Matthew Allen (Nur-D) joined a protest on Nicollet Avenue. As he retreated from a line of ICE agents, he said they shot him in the back with a projectile, tackled and pinned him to the ground, and blasted chemical spray into his face. He was later released without charges. He loudly identified himself on video and said he wanted a record in case he died to prevent misrepresentation. Artists and music communities are mobilizing mutual aid and considering how to use platforms as raids and confrontations escalate.
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