A man in Minneapolis talked publicly about Rep. Ilhan Omar. Soon after, a popular Somali TikTok personality posted where to find him.

A group tracked him down, pepper-sprayed him, knocked him to the ground and beat him. "I got jumped by 15 people and was pepper-sprayed," he told the New York Post. Later, after his name appeared in the press, he says he was attacked again, this time outside a restaurant in Kenya.

He was attacked on two continents after he spoke about his congresswoman.

He isn't the only one. Several members of Minnesota's Somali community told the Post about a pattern of threats and violence against anyone who speaks out about Omar. Most of them were too afraid to give their names.

Videos show men threatening Omar's critics with hospitalization or death. One critic was told, "You are going to be killed," and called a "snake." In another video, a man in Somalia who goes by Aardile claimed he had ordered an attack on one of Omar's critics in Minnesota. That critic says he stayed in bed for a week because he was afraid he'd be shot.

Another man got a phone call from someone the Post describes as a "leading member" of the local Somali community. The Post heard the recording, which runs seven minutes. The caller told him to take back what he'd said about Omar and post his support for her before the election. He refused.

The TikTok personality who posted the first man's location explained what the critics had done wrong. In his videos, he said they had "snitched on Ilhan Omar" and "went after her father." He wasn't accusing them of lying, only of talking.

Nobody has accused Omar of ordering any of this, and the men making the threats have no official connection to her office. But when the Post asked her office about beatings and death threats against people in her own district, it didn't respond.

Omar does talk about threats when she's the one being threatened. She told the Star Tribune that threats would force her out of her Washington home.

Her critics have reason to be afraid. What they've been saying is now in front of a grand jury.

On October 12, federal agents searched Omar's Washington residence and seized her phone. More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have gone out, some to her own relatives. A Minnesota grand jury is gathering evidence on possible immigration paperwork fraud connected to her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who critics have alleged for years is her brother. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says there are "several investigations," including a separate review of Omar's financial disclosures.

Omar says it's all political. She calls the marriage allegation "insane" and the search "an attempt to target political enemies." She has not been charged.

Grand juries don't send out a dozen subpoenas, including to a congresswoman's relatives, without a reason. Omar says the investigation is intimidation, while men in her community are being beaten for talking about her.

The man who was pepper-sprayed in Minneapolis didn't call himself a victim. He told the Post what happened to him, and Omar's office still hasn't responded.