Mom implores son to 'tell the government what you did' in ISIS case

Deqa Hussen spoke at a town hall meeting focused on youth recruitment in the Somali community at Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis last October. Hussen's son, Abdirizak Warsame, was one of the nine young Twin Cities men sentenced last week for their roles in a plot to fight for ISIS. Hussen said she encouraged her son to tell the truth to the government.
Courtney Perry for MPR News 2015
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