A man interrupted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as she was speaking at a town hall event and sprayed her with an unknown substance.

Omar was hosting a town hall event in North Minneapolis on Tuesday evening when a man in a black jacket rushed toward the podium and sprayed her with the liquid. Security guards grabbed the man as he pointed at the congresswoman and tackled him to the ground.

Omar was speaking about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when the man rushed toward her.

“Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,” Omar said seconds before the man sprayed her. A video of the incident shows the man appear to say, “She’s not resigning,” as he began yelling at Omar before he was tackled.

Omar insisted on continuing the event.

“We will continue. These f***ing a**holes are not going to get away with it,” Omar said.

Omar has been an outspoken critic of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations surge in the Twin Cities, repeatedly calling for Noem’s impeachment.

The Minneapolis congresswoman has drawn the ire of her conservative colleagues in Congress and Trump administration officials throughout this year for rebuffing the administration’s policies in Minnesota.

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Her district has been at the center of the news cycle throughout the past several months, from the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal officers to the ICE operations surge and fraud scandal rocking Minnesota.

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