Bananas & Rice Somali Gets Arrested?! | Drew Hernandez

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old St. Paul resident, was among 16 people arrested Wednesday in Minneapolis on federal charges of assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement on X (formerly Twitter). Ahmed had recently gained national attention after a January 21 press conference where she described her Somali-American identity using the metaphor “It’s kind of like bananas and rice,” a phrase that sparked widespread online mockery and became a viral sensation across social media platforms.