One thing this decision drives home—simply by reciting the facts—is that Ozturk was violently abducted with only the thinnest veneer of legality. I know we’ve all seen the video, but it’s also wild that her captors refused to let her speak with her lawyer for a full day. Looks like a kidnapping. - ThreadSky

mjsdc.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

One thing this decision drives home—simply by reciting the facts—is that Ozturk was violently abducted with only the thinnest veneer of legality. I know we’ve all seen the video, but it’s also wild that her captors refused to let her speak with her lawyer for a full day. Looks like a kidnapping.

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lordtired.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It doesn't look like kidnapping. It IS kidnapping.

laurasmith.bsky.social•18 hours ago

All the abductions by (mostly) men wearing masks and hoods appear to be utterly lawless exercises in terror.

chrisbrown1976.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Of course it's kidnapping, the only difference is none of these fucking RepubliCommunists are getting charged for it like they would during a normal year/administration, thank god there's no statute of limitations on it so once Fat Ass strokes out, they can be charged for their crimes

deanbooth.bsky.social•16 hours ago

She has to be transferred to Vermont by *May 14th*? Is the point not to inconvenience her kidnappers?

arthuragain.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Hmm - what's it called when you unlawfully take someone by force or violence from one place to another?

Oh yeah - kidnapping.

Right. That's what it looks like.

daven50.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Purely criminal behavior. The US government should not be a party to this type of conduct.

bskwitter.bsky.social•20 hours ago

If it looks scared like a kidnapped duck, bound and shoved into a van like a kidnapped duck, and sequestered and silenced like a kidnapped duck, it's probably a kidnapped duck

jongar.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Kidnapping is definitely the term of art to define what happened.

hgvancouver.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Mark are lawyers filing civil suits for false imprisonment yet for all of these detainees?? If not why not? I’m up in Canada and confused about this. The elements of the tort seem to be there.

birdermaria.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Sadly, this administration’s nefarious activities will continue to go unchecked.

codhisattva.bsky.social•20 hours ago

When will Governors and Mayors stand up and prosecute the kidnappers? When will local and state police protect residents from these goon squads?

bkelsey91.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Can she sue for civil rights violations?

jeffshmeff86.bsky.social•19 hours ago

She and Mahmoud Khalil are 2 of the people listed on https://canarymission.org , as targets to be prosecuted/deported because they protested Israel.

mrczar3k.bsky.social•19 hours ago

it *is* kidnapping!

mjsdc.bsky.social•20 hours ago

ICE has abandoned almost all the trapping of a lawful arrest. Its officers cover their faces, conceal their identities, use gratuitous force, and transport their targets across state lines to stop courts from intervening. The distinction between an ICE arrest and criminal abduction is disappearing.

davidmouritsen.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Well said

margrouse.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Which trapping(s) of lawful arrest were present here??????

readerjean.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Right? “Almost all”?

drf5n.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Trappings? They had things that looked like badges temporarily hanging around their necks.

Surely the stinkin' badges were enough?

jamespio.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Local law enforcement in some place where these abductions occur needs to file criminal indictments. They might get dismissed on some supremacy-related basis, but they might not, and either way the point is made that this is criminal conduct and people risk going to prison if they work for ICE.

cmhoskins.bsky.social•6 hours ago

So wrong on so many levels. I truly can't believe this is actually America in 2025. So dystopian.

irateoverlord.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Someone’s gonna get shot.

protestspb.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Who else is doing so?

terrifiedstill2024.bsky.social•19 hours ago

There is no difference. These ice people are living their dream. I look forward to the day they reap what they are sowing

thegentyyc.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Whatever happened to #StandYourGround laws or is that only for killing black folks?

destcygnusx1.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Or rather, with FSB disappearance.

anonyme16.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Cabinet doge treason per 3, 3 of const (overthrow social order and war on own people =war on the US =treason), and crimes against humanity per article 7 of ICC unlawful arrests deportations of a targeted group of civilians (brown people). Congress needs to take action or they are complicit per 3.3.

bethwithcats.bsky.social•19 hours ago

bslotterback.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I still don't understand how it is legal for them to cover their face and not identify themselves as law enforcement

chefesque.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Once one of the Karens scared of getting sextrafficked from a Target parking lot, unloads her Glock on some ICE agents, they’re going to rethink their SOP.

nickparish.bsky.social•18 hours ago

You hate to see it, but this sort of thing could turn into an exciting judicial litmus test if advocacy groups play their cards right.

mrpothead.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Is there some assumption that ICE is going to be picking up white people so that this kind of confrontation would even occur? They’re not picking up white people.

mrpothead.bsky.social•18 hours ago

They’re not approaching white people; there’s gonna be no shooting of ice people because they’re not fucking with white people. And I know the cases of white Europeans who have been detained. They haven’t been detained by masked, concealed- identity ICE officers.

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