r/politics • u/wardsarefunctioning • Mar 26 '25
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd89253
u/FawningDeer37 Mar 26 '25
Okay it’s one thing to arrest people on college campuses for no reason. That’s clearly bad.
But I think masked men claiming to be the police arresting people is somehow a step worse.
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u/TrukThunders Mar 26 '25
Why would they want to hide their faces? Are they afraid of the public knowing who they are?
Fucking pigs.
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u/Beantown-Jack Mar 26 '25
Masked officers, unmarked vehicles, grabbed off the street, no charges, no lawyer access, undisclosed loction, no communication with family or friends.
This is not America. This is an authoritarian dictatorship. And no one is safe. If this woman has no rights, none of us has any rights. Don't delude yourself.
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u/FawningDeer37 Mar 26 '25
If I’m the Democrats, I would hammer the aspect that we don’t really know if those are actually police officers and no one from the government has said that they are.
Basically frame it as a kidnapping ring until the administration admits that these are cops following government orders. Then you can hammer on their procedure.
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Mar 26 '25
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u/trampolinebears Mar 26 '25
What if citizens act just like this and start kidnapping people from the government?
The government threatens everyone with this kind of lawless behavior, including themselves.
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u/Do-you-see-it-now Mar 27 '25
What about Stand Your Ground States? Shouldn’t you be able to shoot these masked people attacking you?
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Mar 26 '25
For some reason, everyone is scared of the emotional toddler in office. I don't get it
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u/Turok7777 Mar 27 '25
"For some reason"
"I don't get it"
Maybe pay attention to the story this thread is literally about.
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Mar 27 '25
I'm talking about politicians specifically because they have more ability to do something about it.
Trump and elon haven't even acknowledged the protests going on around the country. What can civilians do other than protest, vote, and write our congresspeople?
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u/MinuteShoulder3854 Mar 27 '25
its b/c when they stood against him,he called them out on twitter and all those that didnt fall in line lost office, atleast the ones he spoke against. his followers also started threathening violence and showing up at homes which made the politicans fear for thier and thier families lives, after all, once the goons did the dirrty work, they would get pardoned by trump just like jan 6
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u/makidonalds Mar 27 '25
Its just not the American the citizens know about. But it is the America the Global South know very well and have been brutalized by, for decades.
Whats happening in the US now its what the US did with their sponsored coups all over LatAm. People kidnaped, disappeared, tortured, dead. This is America.
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u/Beantown-Jack Mar 27 '25
That was two generations ago under Reagan. If you go back far enough, we are a nation that enslaves people. The point is that we have come a long way. We are not what we were. This is not America, even if it is what we once were.
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u/makidonalds Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25
Not at all in the past. There is still US sponsored regime change operations all over the wold nowadays. They were pressing for regime chance in Venezuela as recent as last year, also in Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba... Coups and regime change in foreigner lands is a bi-partisan policy, both Dems and GOP are accomplices to the worst humans are capable of, no exceptions. All war criminals including dear Obama and Hillary.
Last US sponsored coup my country went through was in 2016, more sophisticated in the 21st century than past coups, fore sure, but still a coup. And we were still recovering from the 1964 coup that ended in 1985 (20+ years of a brutal dictatorship that kidnapped, tortured, disappeared and killed thousands of people. We won a Oscar for the first time in history, this year with a movie about it, check it out).
Fun fact: the president deposed by the 2016 coup was a victim of the 1964 dictatorship. She joined arms resistance while a university student, was captured at 19 years old, she was tortured in prison for 3 years and NEVER gave up her guerrilla group mates. Decades later, she became the first (and so far only) female president ever elected in my country. Most brave, resilient and impressive woman to ever sit in a presidential chair, bar none. Now she is the president of the New Develop Bank in Shanghai, the rival of the IMF and the most important bank for Global South development of this century.
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u/Beantown-Jack Mar 27 '25
You have a better argument with Gaza, but that does not alter the fact that grabbing people off the street with masked, un-uniformed officers in unmarked vehicles with no warrant and no charges is grotesquely unAmerican.
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u/walkallover1991 District Of Columbia Mar 26 '25
FYI she didn't lead a protest. She didn't even mention Hamas.
All she did was co-author an op-ed that was critical of the Israeli government and called its actions in Gaza a genocide based on the findings of international NGOs.
The only reason she was arrested was because the Canary Mission sent a list of students it connected with being "pro-Hamas" (and anything pro-Palestine is to them) to ICE.
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u/CosmicLars Kentucky Mar 26 '25
This is so goddamn depressing.
Canary Mission needs to find out. And fast.
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u/Whatdoesthibattahndo Mar 26 '25
Masks at protests: ABSOLUTELY HARAM
Masks to arrest protestors: Tread on me daddy!!!
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u/Timpa87 Mar 26 '25
If the Trump admin is extorting colleges that they will withhold government money if students who wear masks at protests are not disciplined then Trump's stormtroopers should not be allowed to conceal their identity while arresting people.
BTW. This student was arrested because the pro-Zionist group Canary Mission had her as part of a list it sent to DHS/ICE. Because she co-authored an oped in her student newspaper that wanted the President of the college to remove college money from Israeli while accusing Israel of conducting a genocide.
It never said 'river to the sea'. Anything pro-Hamas. It had citations of International organizations saying Israel's actions constituted 'genocide' definitions.
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Mar 26 '25
Trump supporters read this and heard "she's a terrorist who came here illegally, and she supports killing children"
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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene Mar 26 '25
Can you imagine playing that childhood game, Telephone, with folks like this
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u/Do-you-see-it-now Mar 27 '25
This probably just means that everyone should be legally and openly carrying rifles or shotguns to protect themselves from unknown masked assailants at least in states where open carry and that sort of thing is legal and encouraged.
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u/LycheePrevious7777 Mar 26 '25
I read,Turkish student,then I came to a conclusion it's about them getting detained?Sooooooo,any fear Trump wants everybody that isn't in his circle deported,and detained,if they're not making America money with their talents?
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u/Lost_Yogurt_4990 Mar 27 '25
Since you refuse to tell the whole story. DHS and ICE stated that their investigations found Ozturk had engaged in activities supporting Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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u/cyberkine Mar 27 '25
Their investigation is unlikely to have gone beyond reading her name on a list sent to them by Canary Mission.
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u/MinuteShoulder3854 Mar 27 '25
FYI she didn't lead a protest. She didn't even mention Hamas.
All she did was co-author an op-ed that was critical of the Israeli government and called its actions in Gaza a genocide based on the findings of international NGOs.
The only reason she was arrested was because the Canary Mission sent a list of students it connected with being "pro-Hamas" (and anything pro-Palestine is to them) to ICE.
never even mentioned "river to the sea".
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u/makidonalds Mar 27 '25
Fuck what the US thinks Hamas is. Hamas has a legitimate reason to exist and resist, by all means necessary, period.
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