Seconds after an attacker sprayed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with unidentified liquid at a Minnesota meeting, she confronted the man and then defiantly went on to finish her comments, AFP journalists saw.Â
The Somali-born US lawmaker, a constant target of Donald Trump's attacks, had just called for the president's homeland security chief to resign in the wake of immigration agents killing two US citizens in a matter of weeks.Â
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