A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.
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This statement advises the Tufts community to call university police to activate their established protocol. For those at other universities, do you know what the protocol is or who to call to activate it if you witness something like this? If so, please share here.
SERIOUSLY?!? “…should the individual request our assistance.“ Fuck straight the hell off, Tufts! You think they’re gonna let her call anybody for help?!? You should be protecting and fighting for your students!
I don’t see anywhere where the Administration feigned outrage over masked people abducting a student in broad daylight off the street, but they did want you to know this was not student housing. Thanks Tufts. This feels great for your students. Glad you included a mental health link.
I'm sorry: dude, it's great you shot the video, with comments from your window. But why the HELL didn't you go down to the street and HELP HER OUT?! Even if just to film this up close, ask who they are, and so we could SEE who they are? And was NO ONE else on the street to intervene at all?
'cuz she wrote an op-ed in student paper criticizing Netanyahu?
Why would any sane iindividual with a foreign passport--now--even consider studying , visiting or working in the US?
The Tufts statement is spineless and cold. To suggest that it may be distressing to “some” members of their commuting, especially the “international students.” Shouldn’t it be distressing to every member of Tufts community who believes in the US Constitution? E.g. of how to fold to fascism.
Now they are saying she engaged in Humus support Activities, new excuse.
An international Tufts University graduate student was detained Tuesday by federal agents in Massachusetts. A representative of the Department of Homeland Security said the student "engaged in activities in support of Hamas."
I'm starting to wonder if there aren't more stories like this we haven't heard about. We heard about Mahmoud Khalil because it's Columbia and this guy because it's Tufts but there are other universities where someone could disappear and just not be heard from again...
He may'nt care much.
I'm watching Turkey, Egypt + Suez.
The latter two came up with Hegseth et al in that Goldberg reveal.
The Houthi thing seems like cover for something related to Egypt and US desire to pressure it.
Bet it's for Netanyahu.
Trump + Putin owe him for dividing our election.
I like your point. I delved.
Students + others have been protesting in Turkey for days and Erdogan says bad things about them. Elections coming; his opponents harassed.
I think the Tufts PhD victim's taking is ON PURPOSE in part due to her nation of origin.
Turkey joined NATO in 1952.
Pry it open.
If this isn’t grounds for Major Protests I don’t know what is. Why do we have unpatched, non-government, Stazi-like pieces of shit taking people off the streets.
“Following university protocol, the Office of University Counsel will assist in connecting the student to external legal resources should the individual request our assistance.”
Hard to do from ICE custody. Maybe Tufts could be more proactive.
I hate the clear legalese used in these statements. I guess Tufts is better than Columbia in they aren’t actively helping ICE. But where is the ire and the compassion? She is their student and what is being done to her is clearly unfair and inhumane?
I guarantee they are f'n pissed! I'd like to see the email from the dean of students or, better, hear what is said in campus meetings. Internally is where the emotion will come out. It's a close community, with schools from Arts to Engineering to International Relations + graduate.
I LOVED it there.
I live in MA. Tufts is in Somerville/Medford, which is a very progressive/liberal area super close to Cambridge. Not only is it criminal that these thugs are doing, it's meant to make us Mass Progressives scared, which I won't be. F the orange man AND leon!
That’s a lot of tiny text. Thanks for offering alt text, but the alt text region still doesn’t scroll on this damned half-built website. I’ve reported it and they still haven’t fixed it.
Under existing law ICE needs to obtain a warrant from a Judge based upon evidence. ICE got in trouble for doing this last time DonOld occupied the WH, & was sued and signed a Consent Judgment covering certain states for future activities. So now they are also violating a Court's Judgment too.
I want to be very explicit that I'm not advocating violence, but where I live, rolling up on someone with "no identification and wearing masks" is a good way to get shot. If these kidnappings continue, sooner or later someone's going to intervene with deadly force and then all hell will break loose.
If the Feds are going to roll around acting extrajudicially, states need to up their game and bar these agents from their state and reassure their residents that they have their backs should someone defend themselves.
i’ve thought about this. There’s also talk he’s going to declare martial law on 420 Is that the final nail in the woke coffin? Is that why it’s that date?
Impeachment requires a majority of the House to vote for it.
Not going to happen so long as Republicans control the House.
Conviction requires 2/3s of the Senate vote to convict. Didn't happen the last 2 times the Tangerine Palpatine was impeached, so probably a showstopper this time too. 🤬
Matt, is there a Boston area group that is sending out flash alerts about ICE deployments around the city? Or doing volunteer drives for people who need supplies or something?
Urge to melt the ice is rising exponentially in me.
College leadership need to STOP listening to their so-called legal and PR teams. The colleges lame responses to abductions will not protect the college or the students.
Extremists will not stop until the institution is hollow. Better to fight than appease extremists.
Columbia just announced that students are not allowed to cover their faces. Yet here we have plainclothes police with masks over their faces abducting a student off the street.
This is just the beginning. This is to lull us into accepting the action in general.
I listened to a hearing about ppl being disappeared to Salvadorean prisons the other day and the govt's lawyer kept insisting that the only lawful way to contest their detention was for detainees to file a habeus petition in the jurisdiction they are being held.
Agreed with a caveat; offering physical resistance to these pigs will only get you arrested too. Escort, document. And there are organizations, I don’t know heir names yet, that provide assistance like safe rides and grocery drop offs and such. They’d have better plans than me.
I'm incredibly proud of my alma mater for being ready to back her up with legal counsel and for having processes in place for government visits to campus facilities. (She was grabbed off-campus.)
I lived in Davis Square during the Death Ride of the Brothers Tsarnaev. I recognize where this happened. It’s two blocks from campus at Mason Street and Electric Avenue.
They are using either class or work schedules to plan these ambushes.
There is A DHS ICE Boston Field Office in Burlington, Ma. , The ICE Detention Center in Boston And The Department Of Homeland Security In Boston And I’m Surprised People Are Not Staking These Places Out And Protesting At These Locations Where Employees Orders Are Being Given And Work From
I have no idea what if anything is being done outside those locations. But I’d rather they focus on helping people where they are. Because, given what little I’ve seen of these “arrests,” this woman was moved out of state as soon as possible to avoid habeus corpus.
I thank you for providing them. I would say teams to stake out those locations during shift changes to keep an eye and warn about roll outs of forces. And to identify the pigs who are now masking their snouts. And larger teams in town to record their every attempt. They scurry for cover from cameras
This chills me to my bones to tell you. I recognize the place. In the video, you can zoom to the street sign to the top left. It is Electric Avenue (I know, I know).
I lived in Somerville right by Tufts for 6 years. I found the intersection in the video on street view.
In the video, the wall on the far side of the street from her on the left corner of the perpendicular street, Electric Ave, is a white concrete wall. Across from it is a low brick wall with regular 6 foot tall brick pylons backed by evergreen bushes.
This is the still from in front of 30 Mason Street, Somerville, MA
Note on the right on the overhead that this corner is less than two blocks from Tufts University. We must conclude these pigs are using her class schedule to ambush her.
We’re definitely at political abductions. I’m not looking forward to this administration reaching the throwing-opponents-and-critics-off-of-buildings stage.
🔵⚪️🟡 For no particular reason, here’s some reference info on Argentina’s “Dirty War,”during which “enemies of the state” were disappeared. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
They’ll provide support if asked? How she going to request support from a black site you gutless fucks?The government is kidnapping your students - DO SOMETHING!
I had the same thought. The student’s attorney doesn’t even know where they are, so why is the school shifting the burden of acting to the abducted student?
I doubt they have any idea what to do. What school was prepared to have students kidnapped for expressing a mere thought? This is quite literally 1939 Germany. No one is safe.
A school with a decent history department who can see the parallels you’re drawing.
I’m not asking them to storm ICE and extract Ozturk themselves - but their statement should be demanding that her rights are respected, not empty rhetoric about spending more time with friends, FFS.
I wish that was the case, but schools are treading lightly. They receive over $100M in federal funding. They should simply rely on their endowments but they are afraid the administration will strip their funds like they did with Columbia. NIH grants fund over 200 research projects across the uni
And how has rolling over for Trump worked out for Columbia? He’s just demanded more from them! “Treading lightly” doesn’t work, so you might as well have some principles
At the very least, call 911 and report kidnapping in progress. Let local or campus police sort out whether it’s DHS, freelancing brownshirts, or human traffickers. Having a large SUV and doesn’t mean squat.
I talked to my 84 year old grandpa who is a vet, about this. He told me ICE agents that grabbed her should be in SS uniforms. He told me, Ms. Ozturk has the right to free speech and right to a trial. His dad got hurt fighting the Nazis in Europe on WW2. He is hoping people stand up.
She made no mention of Hamas. Criticizing foreign nations "we" like is grounds for deportation. Hope that those who protest Russia have their bags packed.
If DHS is detaining legal visa holders without clear justification,it signals a dangerous shift toward arbitrary enforcement. This risks discouraging international students from studying in the U.S. and reinforces the fear that under Trump, no immigrant—legal or not—is safe from government overreach
I know constitutional issues are the point, but what if a person has children or pets in their home? Some children are legally allowed to be home alone at a relatively early age (8 in my state). It wouldn't be unusual for a person, particularly one here on a visa, to lead an isolated life.
I reported Fred Rogers, and it was oddly satisfying.
I needed to get 3 links from Youtube with Fred Rogers talking about being neighbors [easy to find] and download an image of Mr Rogers from wikipedia [public domain enough for this usage].
They found Ms Ozturk a threat; they'll find him one, too.
They just look like thugs they don’t have any ID, they just take her off the street. We don’t know who they are even though ICE says they have her in custody.
On Rachel Maddow, the news is that she's unfortunately in Louisiana under ICE control. My guess is that she's being raped as we speak, by the big, manly fat-ass ICE agents and their little tiny dicks.
We the people need to shut ICE down. We need to surround their offices, stop their vehicles, impede their work, until Rumeysa is released, the Venezuelans are brought back, and ICE is put on a very short leash.
I have a friend who works for ICE, and he got detailed to Guantanamo this week. I told his wife that I thought they had returned all of the detainees back to the U.S., and she said they have recently started sending to Guantanamo again and there are around 30 people there.
The Horror. I also note that there are two women (presumed “ICE Agents?”) amid that phalanx of Goons who surrounded her. StraightUp GESTAPO tactic in broad daylight in an American town. 🤯
Call your senators. Every day. Protest. Hand out ‘red cards’. Document when you see something (incl. license plates, etc.). Donate to the two Florida elections that, if won, would help give us the power we need to stop this whole mess! Start with the five calls app or resistbot to make it easy.
Bring back injunction zones.
Immigration injunctions
Bring back due process rights under the 14th.
Most Americans still believe they believe in a Constitutional order.
A small number of people are lawless.
This is what keeps me awake at night. How is this different than what the Nazis did? It is not. How do we keep people safe from abduction by this lawless administration?
A faculty member who was on a green card wanted to travel out of the country for work (research) this summer, and the union had to tell them “if federal judges can’t compel the executive, what can university counsel do?” They canceled their travel.
It is increasingly blatant that America is not a real country and is just "Israel first".
Israel doesn't bother to hide genocide, the fact that they killed JFK, and doesn't bother to hide it's control of the USA.
USA should be at war with Israel. The question is why it isn't.
Brit here . I’m so shocked at what is happening in the US and the hate towards other Countries , especially to Allies . I never ever thought the US would adopt some practices of Nazis and Putin . I cannot understand why Trump and his cronies are continually getting away with what they are doing .
What's happening in the US is a slow #coup that's been in the making for years. The richest people in our country, the #oligarchs that fund both Parties, have decided that democracy & the welfare state are a losing game. They think they can do a better job governing us plebes. #NotHappening #F'em
She must be in one of the dungeons of Trump's gangs and his terrorist regime, facing pressure or perhaps worse. This is America—the so-called land of freedom, liberalism, and free speech that they never stop preaching about.
Why does the U.S. Gov't get to hold people in captivity without having to let anyone know where they are? Where is that privilege written in a statute?
When you consider DOJ’s position (supported by case law) is that habeas petitions must be filed in the district where the petitioner is held or they’re not valid, this is a shell game with human beings.
This is the type of thing we were used to seeing in the former eastern block countries and in present day Russia.
America it seems no longer believes in free speech and is no longer the "free" country which the world once looked up to.
United States of Fascism. This is insanity.. nothing more nothing less. Puppet Trump the 34 Felony Convicted FRAUD. Adjudicated RAPIST. INSURRECTIONIST. Stole the 2024 election on a FRAUD. He, his handlers and enablers. ALL NEED to be removed and charged with TREASON. WTF is the SCOTUS? Rule of LAW?
I wonder if someone is able to/has been compiling a record of people removed during this administration yet. I fear for all the unrepresented people at black sites…
For only a moment, imagine this was a student on a visa from Russia who travelled school to school organizing demonstrations against Ukrainian students. Would that affect at all our feelings?
Are people outside these facilities protesting? Watching? Anything to help protect these people…..
Think it’s time you guys exercise your right to bear arms….this is absolutely out of a horror movie at this point
They are using ICE to target anyone that they disagree with. These are Gestapo tactics. Democrats will be the next target. Native born vocal Liberals will start to disappear.
I'm disgusted by the lack of due process. Please do something about the lawlessness happening in YOUR State, Senators Warren and Markey. Help this foreign student, Rumeysa Ozturk, in the hands of ICE in MA. @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov
ICE doesn't even tell detainees' lawyers they're detained, let alone where they are. You have to search for them yourself. Shocking, no? They were like this ten years ago, and much longer.
I am pro Israel as an idea. I am not pro Israel as embodied in its current government. There is a BIG difference.
It is actually getting to be a difference about our own feelings about our own country. I am pro USA as an ideal. I am NOT pro USA as embodied in its current government.
Really a shame the only people who replied to me were hateful and violent. To those that liked my post, thank you for understanding that rights are for everyone not just those we like.
JFC, this is about rights. I said I was Pro-Israel to point out that rights are for everyone. You and your buddies are missing the point. And btw, if you destroy Israel to have a Palestinian state in its place, rather than alongside it, what do you think that is called?
This is terrifying. I don't recognize this country anymore. This kind of fascist seizure depriving someone of their freedom without due process is not who we are!
Actually, considering the slave trade this exactly who the US has always been. This has been going on in one form or another since the founding of the US.
It is what Trump and his goons want you to be. Corporate Fascism courtesy of the Heritage Foundation. Turn the sound off and this could be a scene from any totalitarian state.
This is absolutely sickening. This is America, not China or Russia or Iran or North Korea. We have become the very thing the gOp raged against 20 years ago. They have sold our nation’s soul for the sake of power and their insatiable need for revenge. Pure hatred inspired this, nothing else.
"An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities."
Doubt it was terminated, they just must please daddy President numbers of 1,100 a day quota. They are being pressured for their paychecks.
Time to dox these nazis. No one should ever need a paycheck this badly.
You are now living in a lawless country where anyone can be taken and disappeared. This happens in totalitarian dictatorships. That's where you are now.
If a whole lot of people are not on the streets on April 5, then you've accepted this... and worse to come.
Right now a lot of other people need to be jailed for contempt. And frankly, I'm kind of thinking I might be okay with El Salvadoran prisons for all those people.
“Against judges orders”? That’s the Trump Administration’s new thing now; defying a “co-equal” branch? When is someone going to stop him? Oh, right… 25 felonies and millions of ppl STILL voted for him. No one can make believe that “no one is above the law”. #TeflonDon sure seems to be!
The notion that criticism of Israel gwhich under Netanyahu has engaged in atrocities and its own Liebensraum) is grounds for deportation is horrifying. Since when do we owe allegiance to Israel?
Don’t dare go at me, I’m a 70 year old Jew who believes in Palestinian rights and loathes Netanyahu
@paleofuture.bsky.social are you or any peers or readers of these replies aware of any legit legal representation/defense fund set up for her to share?
It is obvious that DHS/ICE has been told to simply ignore the orders of federal judges. The federal judges need to collectively find Trump et al in contempt. Congress needs to as well, but Congress collectively is a eunuch.
Just sayin'...in 1774, Military Governor Thomas Gage dissolved the Massachusetts provincial assembly.The members of the assembly met anyway and organized themselves as a Provincial Congress. It assumed all powers to govern the province.
Something to think about...
Unless these people face real consequences this will not stop. And by real consequences I mean handcuffs. Which will not happen bc first they made sure to own the FBI and all federal law enforcement.
The state could do it maybe? But then they’ll just disappear kids in red states
Wish these judges would hold the people that actually kidnapped her be charged with contempt & jailed. Maybe then you would have some of these people thinking twice about doing these illegal activities. Their higher ups will not be held, so start with the lower operators.
glad my adult children and grandchildren did not choose to be ICE agents.
Just doing their jobs.
If you recognize any of them…tell their mothers.
What a terrible job. How can they live with themselves?
This is by design, as they want to force any litigation fighting the kidnapping into Louisiana, then Texas, courts where the judges will be much friendlier.
City mayors and councils nationwide need to demand their police depts protect their taxpaying residents, and investigate further abductions as the serious crimes they are. If these Somerville perps are known to Somerville, Boston, Cambridge or other local PDs, they should be brought in and charged.
The land of freedom is no longer. And this is who *you* voted him in. *You know who you are*. You neither care for the human rights nor the environment except wealth and power. What a wasted human beings.
This better concern everyone. They start with immigrants and tell you scary stories about them until you become numb to it. Then they will progress to people that disagree with them. We are all potential victims.
I would have never believed the US would morph so quickly into an authoritarian dictatorship where the rule of law no longer applies. There is a clear danger to anyone who enters the country.
They'll say she was already out of jurisdiction, again.
Hell, at this point I assume that each of these kidnappings leads directly to the nearest helicopter, plane, or convenient border to start hopping districts and make habeas claims impossible.
Would love the goon squad and the bad faith lawyers lying for them to please face some legal consequences for this, hopefully somewhat expeditiously, is that too much to ask, American legal system
WTAF? Wearing masks and no ICE vests, no way to know who these thugs were. They are kidnapping her, if I saw this happening and I was driving the red car, I may have had to run them over as I would be witnessing a kidnapping! They could have been ISES and not ICE. This is NOT RIGHT!
I wouldn’t ever be able sleep if I did this to a law abiding person regardless if a citizen or not. When police act on nothing but orders without regard to conscience, legality or due process under our laws, NO ONE is safe from abuse & evil. That video makes me sick.
Because it's illegal and they *know*.
They are enjoying this.
They have loathed for decades the thought that citizens should have rights. Now they finally can be the Gestapo thugs they have, at heart, always been.
This is what "qualified immunity" was training them for.
I keep saying it, but I really think these people need to be afraid to try and take people. Call in fake leads. When they show up, teach them a lesson. Follow them home. Arm yourselves. Something. Do something. Jesus
They are wearing masks! Arrest them! Trump doesn’t like masks. We live among such despicable people!!! If you work for ICE right now, you are part of the problem. Not the solution.
Watching this stunned from EU. One question remains though: why does it seem that only the driver of the red car is questioning the proceedure? Why does no one call the police or come to her help instead of/in addition to filming?
to everybody who says were all safe in Massachusetts because the politicians here won't stand for it. they just stood for it, the people doing it don't care either
People doing this could be anyone. ICE is our version of Gestapo anyway (!!) but these fuckers look like random racists with no ‘authority’. How the hell can this even pretend to be anything other than kidnapping people who have an opinion the regime doesn’t like.
Fascism. Stupid American style.
-and now they are invoking the “states secret act” so they don’t have to explain anything, as it claims secrecy is needed to protect the country’s safety. So basically any of us could be snatched up at any time.
I believe it will happen. There is no bar too low, no action too despicable or illegal for these incompetent morons. I worry for the authors of substacks, lawyers, Democrats in general - even those who just post on social media! Protesters will be the first. Horrifying. Gotta get 'em outta there!
Anyone else feel like it's time to storm the Bastille at this ICE facility in Louisiana that's apparently holding Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil & hundreds of others just peacefully protesting this corrupt government.
We American citizens can NOT let this happen in our name!
I reposted first post and asked what i'll ask here: can ANYONE tell me how they can possibly imagine they are safe ANYWHERE in this country at this point? Do people think being completely silent, barely moving an inch will somehow ensure they won't encounter this? Desperate magical thinking.
And many others of us will be soon, until we're afraid to protest, to speak out, to post, to demonstrate, to put up lawn signs, or to support each other. When that happens the protests become shouts become whispers become silence.
I'm pro-law enforcement as anybody you'll see, but this is why you'll see some people call for the abolishment of ICE. What we're seeing here in this clip is completely disgusting.
Since when does any public servant from any jurisdiction hide their face and not present clear credentials when making a legal arrest? Something really stinks here.
I hope every single one of these monsters gets doxed in the worst way. Their neighbors should know what kind of monsters live among them. This is 1930's Germany, third world nation stuff. US will be the least popular country in the world within a year.
SUDDENLY masks are OK! Didn't a BUNCH of GOP led places pass laws about PROTESTERS using masks? NOW "LEOs" are allowed to mask up and there is NO PANDEMIC? This is SO illegal on SO many levels!
"Normal" procedure would be to notify local PD ahead of time. And they could've requested local PD standby also to ensure safety of all. Lazy & dangerous!!
My God. I’m a mid 50s Gen Xer & I never contemplated living long enough to read the description “US Secret Police.” JFC. I vehemently hate him & all thing MAGAt.
I hope... that if you manage to get rid of Trump...
you use ALL the same "methods", to send ALL the "Trump terrorist gang members" to Guantanamo... or Mars... or some hole where no one knows about them anymore!
I woulda called the police on them in a heartbeat. Said there was a kidnapping happening. Let police officers fight about it. Would the police have sided with them? Maybe. Let's find out.
For just a peaceful lonely student:
How many law enforcers?
How many cars?
How many public resources?
Is that efficient?
What does the DOGE "audit" says?
And all of these, disregarding any rule of law or fundamental human rights concerns.
maybe people should drop their phone and call the neighbourhood if they see Something like this or this will become more and more happening frequently even without the state being involved but by far right movements on their own.
All the other Dictators and Fascist leaders have secret police. Trump finally has his own. If a family member or friend disappears, don’t think the usual, think Trump did it.
The malice can be explained by downsizings and cuttings across govt. Defund, shut down, and divert as much government funding to their private control. Techbro fascism is his new venture. Musk, Vance, and the Yarvin enthusiasts they’ve placed into positions have big plans. https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
I did not see them pull badges or warrants out and identify themselves. I know they had something around their necks, but I could get that thing off Amazon.
Since when are we a nation where our law enforcement officers arrest people while wearing masks? The administration is telling Columbia they have to ban masks at protests yet they do this.
Kinda hard to prevent when the election was interfered with by Russia...
And someone did try, in case you forgot, we already had someone take a shot at him.
Not Hungary, Turkey or Russia. Seems like some Americans have enthusiastically embraced the new reality. Land of the free? Nope. Home of the brave? Time will tell.
Freedom to eliminate non white people is exactly what they always wanted, mate. Many of them probably saw the news and got very, very excited. These are NOT good, uninformed people. They are xenophobic monsters disguised as idiots.
next we will get accustomed to these masked unidentified goons to strip search on the street? where will it Stop?.. do they not understand the gravity of moral
and legal issues here? WTF is wrong with these hired guns??!
This is a great example of why it's a joke anyway. If she had a gun on her they'd have used that either as a reason to call her dangerous or just a reason to shoot her right then and there.
Goddamn Gestapo wannabes. I pray she'll be okay. ICE are nothing more than terrorist goons. They should be treated as such and kicked out of civilized society.
It’s great that the US authorities can send 6 agents to apprehend a woman whose visa has expired. You must have no other crime for them to spend their energies on
It actually took six of those goons to detain one defenseless woman...wtf??? is wrong with you stupid merrikans...you must be very close police state by now...and the asshats voted for this???
If they are a "federal agents"...and have to look around if somebody is watching - while "arresting" somebody...they are unlawfull person - and they know it.
Not to mention the scarfs and masks
Why are these cowards wearing masks? If their ideology is such that it would allow them to do this, why are they not owning it and proudly showing who they are? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING.
That's absurd, disgusting 😖. No official arm patch, no badge, no auto emblem, to identify themselves. No response to the observer.🤫 It looks very secretive and nefarious. For what; why?🫣 If it's totally legitimate, why not even identify themselves? 🤷
This is what I don’t get either. No car emblems, no uniforms, no badges (except one guy has something hanging around his neck that could be an ID?), they don’t identify themselves, they don’t show any type of warrant, and they all wear masks.
-and (in response to judges, questioning the legality of the “alien invasion act”) now they are invoking the “States Secrets Act” so they don’t have to explain anything, as it claims secrecy is needed to protect the country’s safety. So basically any of us could be snatched up at any time.
The amount of agents arriving in three vehicles. It’s what I’d expect for an arrest warrant for a mid-level mafia enforcer. Not John Gotti, but one level below Gotti.
I want to know where the F**K the investigative journalists are in this country right now. Other than a lucky Atlantic reporter, WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!?! You are the only protection for human rights in a world where ICE with masks can take people to ????? Let me know when journalists start caring.
Keep a whistle around your neck & blow it as hard as you can non-stop. They're going to take you but at least make it difficult by attracting lots of attention. They're not identifying themselves either so treat it as a kidnapping "fight" for your life by reaching for their masks. Expose them.
Fight? Resist? In America as a person of color? Yeah well...
These thugs happily welcome such an incident and it will be rolled out globe wide, showing, how "violent" "these" people are.
ICE agents wears masks because they know what they are doing is wrong. They don't want to be identified & named in Civil & criminal lawsuits.
If you are law enforcement of any kind (including ICE) and you feel the need to wear a mask, it means *you* personally are doing evil, and you know it.
I am reminded CIA violating a court order & destroying all video recordings of Guantanamo torture sessions. They knew what they did was wrong, and they defied a federal judge and destroyed as much evidence as they could so it would be less likely they were held accountable for their crimes.
Im old enough to remember when during the Biden administration, #ICE detention centers received so many complaints from inmates of sexual assault that they felt compelled to destroy all records they had documenting the complaints from inmates of sexual assault.
#AbolishIce
Biden did nothing to hold the ICE leadership accountable for this destruction of records documenting systemic sexual violence problems at ICE detention centers. Lack of accountability = tacit approval.
Sort of like when Obama said "We tortured some folks" and then did nothing about it.
They're gonna *really* fuck up when ICE unlawfully detains a rich 'friendly' country's citizen. I'm going with Saudi....KSA used to send a good number of students to American universities on scholarships, was very prestigious. They will holler and raise a stink.
And Obama let them get away with it. In fact, he rewarded the criminals with cabinet positions. Elissa Slotkin, a CIA torturer, is now a Senator and Democratic spokesperson.
#AbolishICE
It has always been a racist fascist institution. enthusiasm in which they carry out masked gestapo tactics shows that this is simply a mask off moment that Trump emboldened and not a characteristic caused by Trump administration.
ICE has existed for less than half my life. Abolish it.
No enforcement police or official should wear a mask in the united states of America. You get a warrant, you wear an official uniform and you act professional or if someone might be a threat of violence you don't put on a mask AFTER the subject is in custody. This is outrageous
It's inevitable. Undercover narcotics officers always get shot and killed for the same thing these idiots are doing. They're playing with their lives and the lives of others. Somebody runs up on you without identifying themselves can lead to gunfire. 💥💥
The juvenile testified that they didn't identify themselves. I tend to believe the juvenile because I've had it happen to me before. Then getting up on the stand and lying under oath about what happened. Some police officer's are dishonest and evil.
Exactly, years ago in my town, two undercover narcotics officers ran up on two juveniles hanging out on the corner. They thought they were being robbed because it's a bad neighborhood so one of them shot and killed one of the officers. Of course in court the cops claimed they identified themselves.
ICE doesn’t get warrants. those require the permission of a court. ICE writes itself a document that it calls a warrant, and then tell ppl they have a “warrant” which is straight up fraud.
And sadly, this sets a precedent for traffickers to act freely and out in the open. How can an onlooker tell the difference? If you see this happen, please get license plate numbers and video footage. It may save someone from a dangerous situation.
That's how a lot of undercover narcotics officers get shot. By not announcing they're law enforcement officers and not wearing uniforms. Then when they're shot and killed their police buddies lie under oath in a court of law. Everything was on the up and up... BS!!!
If men in black with masks on try to force you into an unmarked car, most people’s instincts would be resistance and self-defense. And, they wouldn’t be wrong.
I agree. I watched the video of her "arrest". It looked like an actual kidnapping. Complete with them wearing face masks and dressed casually. No showing of papers, no reading her rights. What has our nation become?
It's only the public the Trump regime wants prohibited from wearing masks - it defeats facial recognition software and their dreams of a "surveillance state".
If you have ever had dealings with law enforcement officials it’s not hard for them to quickly adapt to anti democratic norms. Unfortunately I have 3 of them in my family.
I'm old enough to remember Kitty Genoviece, who was stabbed to death, screaming for help, while her neighbors looked on, too afraid to do anything about it, in 1960? My mother always said after that to scream FIRE cuz it'll definitely get a response.
So this is where we are. The death of free speech is the death of the American idea. The experiment is over, and it was given up by people who claim to love America while simultaneously hating everything it stands for.
This is the MF United States. This should not happen here. Senators and representatives need to put a stop this shit now. Stand up to these incompetent stooges.
That’s what I’m thinking could easily happen. If these clowns keep wearing masks and grabbing people on the street without first identifying themselves…it will get crazy in a hurry.
You can see badges on several of them - the guy in the baseball cap pulls it out of his top just as he gets close to her. I didn't notice a badge on the first guy that confronted her.
They always start with students and professors. It's tradition to hit the people who see and say when something not right is happening. Teaches other smarties to be quiet or something.
History is literally repeating itself. Just new players.
If the person won’t open the door, and ICE can’t convince them to, then they don’t have any choice really but to leave. ICE has admitted they don’t have the money to spend to stake out a house for 24 hours or whatever waiting for someone to go out.
So if we show up, can let the community know, inform the family of their rights via a bullhorn, then often ICE has to leave empty handed. They don’t like doing what they do on camera.
It seems in the thread that it’s been happening a lot so they were ready to film it. This seemed so rapid though and I’d guess a student’s movements are very predictable
If we were seeing BORTAC or FSP, I’d agree. It’s almost exclusively ICE / ICE HSI. They may(?) deputize local law enforcement, but that may be prohibited if you’re in a sanctuary city (caveats apply here).
It’s possible, but I haven’t seen any scuttlebutt that suggests that.
If you see this happening to someone, demand ID and film their faces and the cars. Block them from arresting if they don't show ID. Get all the names!
18 U.S.C. § 242. Section 242
They are subject to arrest and prosecution for violating rights.
Why are they putting their hoods up and covering their faces? Haven’t known them to do this in the past unless what they are doing is illegal! Scary and dangerous time in America.
This is some Gestapo shit. Our very own new American SS. And of course their faces are covered because they know it’s wrong. I’m so enraged and heartbroken at the same time. People, we have got to stand up or we are next.
Oh it would definitely turn violent and that is what keeps us hesitant and paralyzed. And they know it, with their masks and their show of force. They want us to "incite."
gather people, surround the car, keep shouting? I’m not from the US so I don’t know how things work there but the quietness seems as sinister as the kidnap
It's pretty fucked up, but I can imagine the adrenaline in the situation if you see and understand what's happening. Citizen or not, if you approach these thugs, they just might shoot you dead or ship you off somewhere as a terrorist without due process.
Exactly. And that’s why it’s important to talk about these events even after they’ve happened, so that we can prepare ourselves mentally to know what to do the next time we’re there when it does. At the VERY least!
Trump et al. SCOTUS already rule long ago that everyone in the country has the right to free speech regardless of their legal status. But of course, we know that the current administration doesn’t care about laws if those laws get in the way of their agenda.
My uni's office told us flat out to NEVER be at any protest or demonstration, and mind who you said what to. This was right before 9/11. America has always believed freedom of speech was FOR Americans only, and now not even that.
Oh, Geezus christ. Of COURSE I'm against these Nazis and am horrified by every single thing they do. FAFO is a broad statement in our vernacular now. Pretty sure I've been protesting for the marginalized since before you were born. #RESIST
You're a fucking monster if you're enjoying these horrors visited upon innocent people because people of the same race as them didn't vote how you want them to.
Those "officers" should all be tried & punished when this nightmare is all over. "Just doing their jobs" is not good enough when you act like the Gestapo.
Maybe they can be abducted, in this exact same way, & taken to a cold cell, with no one knowing where, in chains, etc.,.....
ICE is a criminal organisation! There is no way that ICE should be allowed to kidnap anyone without an official warrant issued by a judge. This is terrifying!
ICE are the modern day American version of Hitler's SS. Wake up people! America has degenerated into a 3rd world country complete with a dictator & Schutzstaffel (SS aka Protection Squadron).
So basically anyone with a shiny piece of metal can accost you on the street & haul you away. Am I getting this right? Terrifying both for the person targeted & for others in general.
I'd rather be shot than treated like an animal in some cage somewhere and never seen again. or sold to some foreign for-profit prison. there comes a point where you really gotta remind some people that those cereal box badges don't really mean shit when they stand for nothing
She's not a rapist or a gang member.That is who Trump used to gain support from his base for this type of Gestapo antics.She was using free speech to give awareness of atrocities in Palestine. Does this sound familiar? Who would have fought against Nazi Germany if given a shot? I hope we would have.
Solzhenitsyn wrote that things might have been different if more people had screamed in the stairwell when taken away. Probably not in Stalin’s Soviet Union, but maybe here.
If you see this kind of abduction, scream and intervene at risk to yourself. In fact, just scream anytime you see ICE or CPB.
If I'd been there and seen those unidentifiable thugs abducting that woman, I'd have immediately shrieked at them to let her go, called 9-1-1, and screamed to passersby for help.
"We didn't love freedom enough."
It probably would have worked to some extent even in the USSR, since all authoritarianism runs on people pretending they don't see what's right in front of them.
Fighting back is exactly how that video went viral from the woman at the Idaho town hall meeting a month ago. Dragged out by “private security”. Immediate public outcry led to that company losing its business license and sheriff is under investigation.
She had more social protection from her identity than this tufts student did, but people nearby cd have pitched in—we have to get even more alert to unlawful “state” police kidnappings in broad daylight
except the soviet union didn't abduct students for protesting genocide and the population of gulags in 1989 was a couple dozen prisoners, not the millions in american prisons, guantanamo bay and cecot
You are already there, this is fascism.
Read a book on German history 1933-45, you'll find this as default Gestapo tactics.
History is repeating itself, this time with nuclear warheads an bioweapons, where Zyklon-B pales in comparison.
Not a US citizen though... NOT that that justifies it. First Amendment applies to everywhere where ever it applies at all.
It's more I'm waiting with absolute dread for when THAT line is crossed.
We must not let this happen without revolt. White American citizens, we must use our privilege to stand up against this. We have far fewer threatened consequences, if we don't stand up against these wrongs we are complicit in them.
There's nothing *new* about this sort of thing, it's how immigrations enforcement has been for at leas 22 years, since the INS > ICE transition, and likely longer. People are just paying attention now.
I lived thru Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I understand INS round-ups. Targeting legal visa holders, national networks paying cash penalties for broadcasting the truth, law firms pledging $40 million in legal counsel to avoid sanctions, CEOs apologizing for past tweets. This is all overwhelming.
Someone, anyone, please report this. People can’t just be disappeared and sent to jurisdictions where they get unfair hearings/ appeals. I can’t imagine her trauma from the shock. Immigrants now, citizens next.
Wait, do they have masks on? Because one of Trump’s demands to Columbia was “no masks” for protesters so they couldn’t hide their identities. Yet these people are hiding their identities?
Everything that looks like right-wing hypocrisy is actually right-wing belief in a natural hierarchy. They believe they're morally, spiritually, culturally and biologically superior to us. It's supremacist to the core.
One of the kidnappers is pulling on his mask as the other kidnappers are pulling her backpack off and trying to handcuff her. If this is so legal why the need to put on a mask? 🤬🤬
And probably from clips of those whining about mask mandates during the early days of the pandemic. Amazing how easy it is for these people to wear masks now.
They don’t mean a word they say. Masks are bad when people they hate wear them. Masks are good when their fascist thugs wear them. Immigrants are terrible when they don’t like Trump. Immigrants are far more important than Americans if Trump likes them.
in a surveillance state (like the US), people like you and I are not allowed to conceal our identities for health or safety reasons, but those in power can. for the state, it doesn’t matter to them, because they will let each other off the hook for violence against dissidents
there's statewide mask bans now too. in some places, whether or not i'm allowed to wear a mask so i don't get a disease and become mroe dosabled or die is up to cops. meanwhile cops are allowed to freely hide their identities with masks while kidnapping people.
It's a miracle those guys weren't shot, because if some people who are registered and carrying gun owners saw non-uniformed strangers accosting someone in the street, they might've taken matters into their own hands. And I wouldn't have blamed them.
Probably not a coincidence they're pulling this shit in NY and Mass. It'll be interesting to see what happens when they try it in a place like Houston or Dallas. People are going to get shot.
Political leanings aside (and Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antone, and El Paso are all pretty liberal), anyone can carry a gun (or a few) without a license. In NY and Mass, not so much.
Disappearing a grad student for an oped piece is Orwellian thought police tactics. Is freedom of speech dead? I remember student protests against the South African apartheid government, demanding the university regents to divest from SA company investments. No one was deported for protesting.
Not just Canada, nearly every European country too. I don't know how the Olympics are to take place under such dire circumstances, entire teams could held against their will for saying something about Trump, Palestine, LGBTQ, Well anything really. The Paralympics aren't being held there are they?
Terrified and sobbing. They won't stop with #immigrants. We are all one step away from the same fate. The poor wife and kids- that poor man. They have done nothing to deserve this. We must do everything we can to stop this. Please everyone #fight.
I’m from this State. Without immigrants Decoster Egg Farm would never exists without outside workers to slave and do the horrendous jobs we refuse to do. #JanetMillsWhatWillYouDo
Because they co-authored an article criticizing genocide in Gaza? Is freedom of speech right limited to citizens? Agents implementing this kidnapping tactic are complicit and should be ashamed of themselves.
This organization is doxxing people for simply speaking out against Israel. This poor woman who simply wrote an opinion piece was singled out by this organization. Guess who is acting like a Nazi now. https://canarymission.org/students
GOVERNOR HEALY NEEDS TO TAKE THE STATE NATIONAL GUARD AND GO DOWN TO LOUISIANA AND FUCKING GET HER BACK . AND POSSIBLY HOLD UNDER GUARD A BUNCH OF ICE AGENTS AND PRISON OFFICIALS.
Where did this "detained" shit come from? Who started it? Was the Lindbergh baby "detained"? I smell the fascist fingers of Homan and his vendetta against Boston.
You don’t think she was ambushed? Because that title doesn’t think she was ambushed when she was ambushed. I recommend looking the word up so you know what it means and why it was in quotes.
When five people don't identify themselves, wear masks and unmarked hoodies and shove you into an unmarked car--sorry that is not being "detained," that is kidnapping.
Abduction (as a police officer told me during an age 18 abduction I escaped from in university since the officer said I’m age 18 now thus I’m not kidnapped : the word is ‘abducted’) lmfao 🛸 while he said I’d been fated to sex trafficking brothels in the middle of nowhere Kansas instead of a big town
I would have physically fought, kicked & screamed, thinking “don’t be taken to the second place.” Then would be charged with resisting arrest. Kidnappers have handcuffs, too. KGB tactics! If we can’t stop this, America is doomed.
What do we DO???
That sounds absolutely terrifying! Secret police thugs in hoodies and masks arresting an international student? That’s like something out of a dystopian movie. It’s unsettling to see this kind of police action happening without any proper identification or accountability.
If someone in a hood and mask runs up on someone and tries kidnapping them, bashing that goon's head in or sticking them with a sharp object is a matter of civic duty.
No, you don't get to say afterwards "oh well gee willickers ackshually I'm a cop." Nope. Doesn't work that way.
Big subject! But short answer I guess is "no". (Though it's not about her being a student, just about her immigration status.) I mean, I assume you have first amendment rights to the extent that you can't be prosecuted, like anyone else. But they have enormous leeway over whether you can stay.
Which totally sucks, of course! I'm just saying it's nothing new; immigration law and immigration enforcement are bizarre and arbitrary and cruel. And when you get people like THIS in charge they can legally do all KINDS of things.
SInce this administration wants to enforce a no mask rule for protesters on campus, can we get a similar rule for the plainclothes thugs who are arresting "dissidents" in our neighborhoods?
Who are they? KGB? Gestapo? Mossad? No just the "American" version of these despicable agencies "secret police thugs" who are wearing masks and hoodies. They approached a woman on the street. I would have started swinging.
Not all rape is sexual. The mass enslavement of Africans by Europeans is commonly referred to as rape. The city of Rome abducting the women of Sabina was the first famous use of the word, literally meaning “seizure”. This is rape. That woman helped ICE gang rape a completely defenseless woman.
So would every other right-wing dictator the US trained and supported in Latin America. Many learned these tactics at the sadistic School of the Americas.
Isn't the whole argument and justification for the ownership of guns that has been shouted from the rooftops for decades is the *2nd Amendment* which says it's explicitly to fight tyranny?? I'm guessing that all the highly-armed militias will be rising up any day now ....
I just drove down that street last week! @govmaurahealey.bsky.social we can't allow this to continue. International students are the lifeblood of Boston and the Bay State. Tax Revolt at a minimum.
No ID, no badge, face covered?
Did no one try to stop this? We live in a society where people just get disappeared and no one even steps in to ask questions?
Yikes.
Does anyone know if there's any historical backing of German soldiers in WWII wearing human skulls as masks for intimidation? only thing I've found is this picture, but I know the Nazis were known for macabre traditions such as this
They did Let's face it humans can be Shockingly deplorable despots
So basically, any group of hoodie wearing thugs could pose as law enforcement agents and grab people off the street claiming to have legal authority and not required to prove it.
Which is why we need to assume they are illegal kidnappers. If they don't show you the warrat (not just the badge) fight like your life depends on it, it probably does as gulags are often death sentences.
Honestly, so is fighting 8 masked thugs on the street. IDK which is the "right" way to act, nor the most prudent. I certainly don't know which I would do in the moment. I only know what I hope I'd do.
They should have been shot dead by neighbors. Anybody in masks and plainclothes trying to abduct a woman off the street should be getting shot dead or attacked by the able-bodied witnessing it. There's no fucking evidence they were police officers, this was just a kidnapping.
Perhaps the even more terrifying thing is the fact that a country that has argued for years that people need guns to stop an oppressive government from seizing them without warrant is allowing unidentifiable thugs to seize people off the street, because everybody knows they are Trump's thugs. #RIP2A
It was all a lie.
The coup started under Reagan and has methodically continued.
They knew the coup would need to be armed so they all kept their drive for all to have guns. 2nd A is like everything else these people use… for just the opposite use. To overthrow not defend our freedoms, democracy.
ONE difference between now and then. Republicans then actually believed in judicial review and would never refuse to follow them.
Back then republican was the law-and-order party. This party is a DISGRACE!
Narrator: With a drastic reduction of foreigners traveling to the USA due to WH policies against non-citizens, this Olympics lost more money than any other due to the need to drop prices to attract local crowds. Parents and friends of foreign Olympians were not willing to take the risk to attend.
It's not about need, it's about a show of force. It's not coincidence that they did it in broad daylight on a city street they want people to see this happen.
That is horrible. Never thought I would see that in this country. She had to be terrified not even knowing who these people were behind masks. You could hear the fear in her voice. 🥺
Also, Gene Hackman's case was diagnosed and we found out today she had called police for stalking. The real truth is often hidden for Privacy or looked over. Shady shit.
You never know the real truth. We live In a dangerous world! Woman alone etc. stalking, 1,500 proof boys and other criminals released. People are gullible and obviously never been a part of a bad crime to believe this could be something else l
Idk if I got someone from overseas to pay a bunch of money to stay with me & they got vanished I might say something focused on how awful it was & how to get them back not "I didnt say, see, hear, or do nothin & it happened somewhere else, & I'll help if vanished-person asks" but thats just me.
I can also verify that address. I recognize it having lived near to it for 6 years. Saw the street sign said Electric Ave, did a quick google street view. Electric Ave is only 2 blocks long. Ending where this happened. 30 Mason Street, Somerville, MA 02144. Two blocks from campus.
It’s awful, but the most infuriating thing is how little most Americans will care. It’s not about the price of their eggs so, whatever? The descent into fascism is helped along by apathy and lack of empathy.
Her LinkedIn profile appears to be now gone. From another page:
"Rumeysa Öztürk is a Ph.D. student in the Child Study and Human Development program at Tufts University. Her research interests include children’s media, representation of social groups in children’s television, and media literacy."
"She is currently a doctoral research and teaching assistant at Children’s Television Project at Tufts University. She loves teaching and has co-thought a class called Child Development through Film at Tufts University.
Before coming to Tufts, she completed her MA in the Developmental Psychology Program with a focus on Children’s Media at Teachers College, Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar. She is co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative called Kaplumbağa’nın Heybesi.
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Not even writers are safe when they voice an opinion the orange buffoon and his sycophants don't like.
Your Constitution has effectively been suspended.
Queue the TU apology to the tRump Administration for getting punched in the gut.
https://bsky.app/profile/jess-murray.bsky.social/post/3ll5mhgi5rk2r
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
Why would any sane iindividual with a foreign passport--now--even consider studying , visiting or working in the US?
MAGAts probably enjoyed it.
An international Tufts University graduate student was detained Tuesday by federal agents in Massachusetts. A representative of the Department of Homeland Security said the student "engaged in activities in support of Hamas."
I'm watching Turkey, Egypt + Suez.
The latter two came up with Hegseth et al in that Goldberg reveal.
The Houthi thing seems like cover for something related to Egypt and US desire to pressure it.
Bet it's for Netanyahu.
Trump + Putin owe him for dividing our election.
Students + others have been protesting in Turkey for days and Erdogan says bad things about them. Elections coming; his opponents harassed.
I think the Tufts PhD victim's taking is ON PURPOSE in part due to her nation of origin.
Turkey joined NATO in 1952.
Pry it open.
Please share
Hard to do from ICE custody. Maybe Tufts could be more proactive.
I LOVED it there.
Who are these people willingly kidnapping people off the streets of America in the name of MAGA?! 🤬
Multiple articles of impeachment. This regime is off the chain and must be stopped.
They are monsters.
Not going to happen so long as Republicans control the House.
Conviction requires 2/3s of the Senate vote to convict. Didn't happen the last 2 times the Tangerine Palpatine was impeached, so probably a showstopper this time too. 🤬
Urge to melt the ice is rising exponentially in me.
Who are these people willingly kidnapping people off the streets of America in the name of MAGA?! 🤬
Extremists will not stop until the institution is hollow. Better to fight than appease extremists.
This is just the beginning. This is to lull us into accepting the action in general.
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/03/federal-authorities-detain-tufts-student-in-somerville
For whatever that’s worth, I think it demonstrates that they are using class or work schedules to target these folks for ambushes like these.
Screen shots
I can't imagine Tufts bending the knee, ever!
They are using either class or work schedules to plan these ambushes.
I lived in Somerville right by Tufts for 6 years. I found the intersection in the video on street view.
Electric Ave and Mason St
Note on the right on the overhead that this corner is less than two blocks from Tufts University. We must conclude these pigs are using her class schedule to ambush her.
Who tf knows who they are
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
*Actually freedoms may differ from those advertised. Please check the colour of your skin and your religion for more information.
Canary Project is something straight out of Orwell.
Elizabeth Warren has already made a statement, but there have been crickets from the State House.
I’m not asking them to storm ICE and extract Ozturk themselves - but their statement should be demanding that her rights are respected, not empty rhetoric about spending more time with friends, FFS.
Shoot first, ask questions later.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: https://youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
I am definitely afraid for Ozturk's safety - here & in Turkiye
Call me when what they are, ie masked secret police.
#SS
What was her 'crime'?
Fuck these Nazis
Everybody needs to step up and help out in Florida. Do what you can please, we might be able to put the brakes on this perpetual train wreck.
wonder when we hear of people disappearing "for good"
We're going to turn into a strong nation that rivals the GDP of nations like Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Or Burundi.
Edit: it's a joke saying we're gonna be classed as a low income or "Third World" nation with very little allies globally
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article302702014.html
https://canarymission.org/
This foreign agency doxed her in Feb prior to her abduction.
I needed to get 3 links from Youtube with Fred Rogers talking about being neighbors [easy to find] and download an image of Mr Rogers from wikipedia [public domain enough for this usage].
They found Ms Ozturk a threat; they'll find him one, too.
The Emanets (restaurant owners in NJ) seized on 2/25 were also Turkish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002?wprov=sfti1
https://www.leftvoice.org/ice-vs-the-gestapo-a-comparison/
We need to stop this now!
The Gestapo will maybe stop vanishing people if they're met with mass armed resistance
Yeah…about that.
Who are these people willingly kidnapping people off the streets of America?! 🤬
Immigration injunctions
Bring back due process rights under the 14th.
Most Americans still believe they believe in a Constitutional order.
A small number of people are lawless.
I must have died and gone to hell.
Israel doesn't bother to hide genocide, the fact that they killed JFK, and doesn't bother to hide it's control of the USA.
USA should be at war with Israel. The question is why it isn't.
1. Putin
2. Netanyahu
America it seems no longer believes in free speech and is no longer the "free" country which the world once looked up to.
Where is #Rumeysa_Ozturk ❓️📢
Hätte es nie für möglich gehalten, dass ich für eine türkische Studentin in #Amerika laut sein muss, wie für entführte Menschen im #Iran.
Think it’s time you guys exercise your right to bear arms….this is absolutely out of a horror movie at this point
Because the old saying "it could be you" is all to true in America now.
Don't care if you're GOP or Dem or Independent ... is this really what you want your country to be?
An authoritarian nightmare....The Nazi States of America if you will.
DO NOT BUY anything from ANY US company or person unless absolutely necessary--even if you live in the US.
Don't reward the US for behaving like rabid animals (even if they'd led by them.)
This is disgraceful. We are becoming a police state.
It is actually getting to be a difference about our own feelings about our own country. I am pro USA as an ideal. I am NOT pro USA as embodied in its current government.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859
deport these ice 🧊 goons breaking our 4th & 1st Amendment Rights! 🥶
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article302702014.html
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Almost like they know their legal position is dubious.
Time to dox these nazis. No one should ever need a paycheck this badly.
Where go we now? The chasm yawns before us, ready to swallow the concept of law and Justice.
If a whole lot of people are not on the streets on April 5, then you've accepted this... and worse to come.
You've been warned.
Don’t dare go at me, I’m a 70 year old Jew who believes in Palestinian rights and loathes Netanyahu
Something to think about...
The state could do it maybe? But then they’ll just disappear kids in red states
Just doing their jobs.
If you recognize any of them…tell their mothers.
What a terrible job. How can they live with themselves?
Hell, at this point I assume that each of these kidnappings leads directly to the nearest helicopter, plane, or convenient border to start hopping districts and make habeas claims impossible.
Not 21st Century
The poor thing!!
They are enjoying this.
They have loathed for decades the thought that citizens should have rights. Now they finally can be the Gestapo thugs they have, at heart, always been.
This is what "qualified immunity" was training them for.
But hood also workkks, I guess
Talk about Government efficiency!
We are living in Nazi Germany around 1938. Horrible!!!!
It's been really warm here
Fascism. Stupid American style.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killings_and_enforced_disappearances_in_Bangladesh
We American citizens can NOT let this happen in our name!
Vive la Révolution!
Any of us.
It’s time to choice.
Everyone that is anti Trump/MAGA is on the list. None of us are safe. USA born or not. Mark my words.
Everyone masked: for stealth, not for health.
Creepy fuckers think they are safe.
They aren't
Why are their six officers?
Doge is really fucking efficient. 🙄
They’ll come for all of us soon
Is the new
“Trust me bro”
you use ALL the same "methods", to send ALL the "Trump terrorist gang members" to Guantanamo... or Mars... or some hole where no one knows about them anymore!
Report this sort of activity(when it's happening) by saying, "I believe I just witnessed a potential kidnapping," & describe visuals.
Meanwhile, when recording, try to focus very clearly on license plates.
How many law enforcers?
How many cars?
How many public resources?
Is that efficient?
What does the DOGE "audit" says?
And all of these, disregarding any rule of law or fundamental human rights concerns.
Where was The Resistance? Why did no one intervene?
https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
Government workers now have to go into the office to work but they get to conduct business through their personal phones on Signal from wherever.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social
@governorwalz.mn.gov
@sanders.senate.gov
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I know the chat is a hot topic right now but can you all also talk about and disavow the state sanctioned kidnappings thanks
“Befehl ist Befehl” was never an excuse!
And someone did try, in case you forgot, we already had someone take a shot at him.
Grab your box of tissues people: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_XdtAQXnGE&t=3s&pp=2AEDkAIB
crazy hot take guys.... maybe administration should calm down instead😻😻😻
and legal issues here? WTF is wrong with these hired guns??!
They wanted the white guy with the criminal record, and RAPIST.
They got him. They're HAPPY. 🇺🇲
Can't wait for this to be used to justify mask bans even though these terrorists are taking orders from ICE.
Learn from Glasgow - up with this shit we do not put ⤵️
"let our neighbours go"
"Hundreds gathered in the area, with one man crawling under the van to prevent it from moving."
where is she now? what has she done?
Not to mention the scarfs and masks
And what was with the red car with the roof rack? Uninvolved civilian? That looked confusing to me.
who is mobilizing to do that? @leahgreenberg.bsky.social the talk last night was good but how do we quickly respond to this?
Where is the place to easily pitch in when we hear?
These thugs happily welcome such an incident and it will be rolled out globe wide, showing, how "violent" "these" people are.
It came as a feature with a ''security'' leather satchel i ordered not long ago...
Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3ljxag4z5u425
If you are law enforcement of any kind (including ICE) and you feel the need to wear a mask, it means *you* personally are doing evil, and you know it.
#AbolishIce
Sort of like when Obama said "We tortured some folks" and then did nothing about it.
https://www.splinter.com/ice-seeks-permission-to-destroy-records-of-sexual-assau-1798541263
A few pew pew pews might make them behave differently.
It has always been a racist fascist institution. enthusiasm in which they carry out masked gestapo tactics shows that this is simply a mask off moment that Trump emboldened and not a characteristic caused by Trump administration.
ICE has existed for less than half my life. Abolish it.
Then what?
Probably me.
Professor Vlad is training his satellite office well
When is the media gonna wake the fuq up
The violent maga thugs are just itching to hurt someone.
Disgusting
Anybody can wear hoods & masks & flash fake ID
If this happens to you start screaming at the top of their lungs
Yell Rape
Draw a crowd
Make the cops come & verify who the masked people are
no due process, no identification, just disappearing off the streets
Brutal people
Is this the government we want?
History is literally repeating itself. Just new players.
If we can catch them before they grab anyone, we can usually stop a detention.
It’s possible, but I haven’t seen any scuttlebutt that suggests that.
18 U.S.C. § 242. Section 242
They are subject to arrest and prosecution for violating rights.
Thank the Republicans and their greedy soulless hearts for all of this.
They all knew they needed a dirty Supremacist’ Court in order to be successful.
McConnell should face a firing squad for his part in the destruction of our nation. But he’d have a lot of company with him in that outcome.
We as a people have always had adversaries, it’s up to us to keep them at bay.
Greed and corruption within (mostly) the Republican Party is why this is happening.
Dangerous
Call your lawmakers
Liberty and justice for all
Everyone - ESPECIALLY WHITE AMERICAN MALE CITIZENS - if you see this happen to anyone in your vicinity, FUCKING REVOLT.
SCREAM.
THROW SHIT.
FIGHT THESE NAZIS.
DEFEND your fellow humans from these FASCIST PIGS.
#RESIST #RESIST #RESIST
Regardless, you have to do what's right!!! 💚
Yeah man fuck those morons who thought Harris and Trump were the same, I hope they feel stupid but I don't hope they get fucking kidnapped you psycho
They post FAFO comments everytime a new ICE story comes out. They outright enjoy it and say so.
They're proud to take pleasure in others suffering. I mean it, they morally are an empty husk getting dopamine off trolling.
Ghouls.
Maybe they can be abducted, in this exact same way, & taken to a cold cell, with no one knowing where, in chains, etc.,.....
No uniforms. Masked.
America?
The way to Hell!!!!
That being said, I can’t see myself being taken alive by these MAGA kidnappers.
This gestapo shit is fucking heinous. These thugs only understand one thing.
"THIS WE'LL DEFEND"
If you see this kind of abduction, scream and intervene at risk to yourself. In fact, just scream anytime you see ICE or CPB.
It probably would have worked to some extent even in the USSR, since all authoritarianism runs on people pretending they don't see what's right in front of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1989/11/28/dont-forget-those-still-in-the-gulag/1d37b170-4d16-489c-9ce0-ce3930e52368/
Read a book on German history 1933-45, you'll find this as default Gestapo tactics.
History is repeating itself, this time with nuclear warheads an bioweapons, where Zyklon-B pales in comparison.
They only wear masks on duty.
Firing government employees to find the money for this shit.
It's more I'm waiting with absolute dread for when THAT line is crossed.
@velshimsnbc.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
Someone, anyone, please report this. People can’t just be disappeared and sent to jurisdictions where they get unfair hearings/ appeals. I can’t imagine her trauma from the shock. Immigrants now, citizens next.
The point of doing this in Boston and NY is that those places have people more openly speaking out. Target rich environment.
Political leanings aside (and Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antone, and El Paso are all pretty liberal), anyone can carry a gun (or a few) without a license. In NY and Mass, not so much.
Besides, guns or no guns hasn't really stopped ICE in Texas or anywhere else.
Not that I'm opposed to gun ownership, I find it based and good, but let's be real. "This wouldn't happen in Texas cuz gun ownership" isn't true.
Turn the US into such an ugly sh!thole of a country that absolutely NO ONE wants to go there.
No wall required
Apple under Steve Jobs released one of the greatest ads of all time suggesting they were breaking an Orwellian future.
Apple under Tim Cook in 2025, donating a million to Trump’s inauguration fund to support an Orwellian Now
Outrageous.
https://canarymission.org/students
We need a better word to convey the absolute evil of govt goons stealing a person.
We should normalize the community resisting these attacks by all means necessary.
"Police state nabs doctoral candidate while no one helps her"
"Tufts Community Allows Another Rendition"
Truly, we're beyond what our current vocabulary can convey. Something onamonopoeic between disappeared and Holocaustic horror?
I was in Afghanistan when that scandal broke. I knew right then we had already lost both wars.
Email: [email protected]
it’s not scare quotes
What do we DO???
"Tufts graduate student assisting ICE with Trump's deportation policy".
The people making the movies got the ideas from history books.
Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany, Argentina, Chile, China, and many other states have gone through something like this.
Tomorrow it might be you.
Get out and fight.
No, you don't get to say afterwards "oh well gee willickers ackshually I'm a cop." Nope. Doesn't work that way.
https://bsky.app/profile/eddynightingale.bsky.social/post/3lkoa6kb74c2o
Should we plan to bomb the US in the name of democracy soon then?
Did no one try to stop this? We live in a society where people just get disappeared and no one even steps in to ask questions?
Yikes.
For intimidation and fear
They did Let's face it humans can be Shockingly deplorable despots
"Where are the fathers? Who radicalized them?" /s
https://youtu.be/TLe9XhRVX24?si=5ojnB8AtJqjH_NLN
The coup started under Reagan and has methodically continued.
They knew the coup would need to be armed so they all kept their drive for all to have guns. 2nd A is like everything else these people use… for just the opposite use. To overthrow not defend our freedoms, democracy.
Back then republican was the law-and-order party. This party is a DISGRACE!
Americans need to take it to the party responsible, our rotten no good greedy corrupted Republicans.
How can anyone with an inch of common sense work for such an organisation?
It's not covered on Fox.
#FFS
Idk if I got someone from overseas to pay a bunch of money to stay with me & they got vanished I might say something focused on how awful it was & how to get them back not "I didnt say, see, hear, or do nothin & it happened somewhere else, & I'll help if vanished-person asks" but thats just me.
News flash: This news should be distressing to EVERYONE. They fucking kidnapped her
"Rumeysa Öztürk is a Ph.D. student in the Child Study and Human Development program at Tufts University. Her research interests include children’s media, representation of social groups in children’s television, and media literacy."
https://www.29mayis.edu.tr/tr/etkinlik/over-the-moon-movie-discussion-childrens-understanding-of-death