Ilhan Omar admitted she wasn't entirely truthful when she told high school students a story that was meant to exhibit the economic disparities black people in America face.

The representative from Minnesota told hundreds of students at Richfield High School last week in her home state that she witnessed an elderly black woman get detained for a weekend for stealing $2 bread for her 'starving 5-year-old granddaughter.'

Omar told the 400 teenagers that the incident transpired five years ago when she was serving as a city councilwoman in Minneapolis.

'I couldn't control my emotions,' Omar told students in describing that she screamed 'bulls**t' in court when the woman was fined $80 for the crime. 'I couldn't understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.'

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar admitted she may have 'flubbed' some details of an incident she told high school students of racial injustice she witnessed five years ago

Omar told the teenagers that an elderly black woman was put on trail for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her starving grandchild and was ordered to pay $80

Omar told the story – which she now admits was embellished – during a visit to Richfield High School in the suburbs of Minneapolis

The congresswoman told the students, about two decades after her family fled Somalia, that she thought America was supposed to be more just than the society she grew up in.

'I grew up in an extremely unjust society, and the only thing that made my family excited about coming to the United States was that the United States was supposed to be the country that guaranteed justice to all,' she said at the event in the suburb of Minneapolis.

'So, I feel it necessary for me to speak about that promise that's not kept,' she said.

Omar admitted, however, that the story was embellished when it was pointed out that it shared a lot of similarities with a plot line in 'Les Miserables.'

She told The Washington Post, she may have 'flubbed' some of the fact.

'She might have had a prior [arrest],' Omar said of the 'sweet, old' African American woman. 'I'm not sure.'

'The details might not have all matched, but that's what I remember,' the first hibjab-wearing U.S. congresswoman said.

City officials in Minneapolis said police aren't permitted to arrest shoplifters unless there was indications of violence or additional crimes. They added that those a=caught shoplifting are usually sentenced to attend a three-hour class.

The Washington Post pointed out that the story was strikingly similar to a plot line in the novel, play and film 'Les Miserables'

'She might have had a prior [arrest],' Omar said of the woman in the story when the similarities were pointed out. 'I'm not sure... The details might not have all matched, but that's what I remember'

Omar, as well as other freshman representative, have clashed with leadership in their caucus, including with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi attacked four congresswomen, Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (right), Rashida Tliab (left) and Ayanna Pressley for voting against the Republican $4.6 billion border bill, which she helped get through the House

When one student asked Omar who her mentors were, the Muslim representative said she doesn't have any.

'You don't need people to guide you. You can guide yourself,' she said.

Omar is part of a progressive group of freshmen representatives, which includes fellow congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tliab and Ayanna Pressley.

The four recently clashed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she criticized them for voting against the Republican $4.6 billion border bill, which was signed by President Donald Trump last week.

'Patetico! You know they're just salty about WHO is wielding the power to shift 'public sentiment' these days, sis,' Omar tweeted at the Speaker. 'Sorry not sorry.'

Pelosi said the four who voted against the bill, which included aid to improving migrant detention centers at the border, were relying on their social media followings.

'All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,' she wrote. 'They're four people and that's how many votes they got.'