It’s Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be.
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It shows, clearly, the explicit and proud policy of the Trump administration.

One of the men goes for her phone. The other grabs at her hands. Ozturk screams. Shock and fear ripple through her voice. Two masked women join them, tugging at her backpack, peeling the straps from her shoulders. “I’m going somewhere, I need to call someone,” she pleads. “We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says in response.

They surround her. Then, one by one, they pull their neck gaiters up to cover their faces. “You don’t look like police,” a voice off screen says. “Why are you hiding your faces?” The questions continue, but the figures don’t respond. Instead, they cuff Ozturk, cross the street, and put her in an unmarked SUV. She is gone.

  • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    8 days ago

    A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson later claimed Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.” The person said Ozturk, who is from Turkey, had had her student visa revoked.

    To be perfectly clear, Ozturk is not accused of breaking the law. The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t bothered to explain its reasoning, but several outlets reported that Ozturk co-authored a student opinion piece urging Tufts to recognize the International Court of Justice’s declaration of a “plausible risk of genocide” unfolding in Gaza and to divest from Israel. You can read the article if you like. It does not mention Hamas.

    WT actual F? A school opinion piece gets you disappeared??

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      We FUCKING TOLD ALL OF YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. And you said we were being hyperbolic.

      It will get worse.

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        How long do people think it will take for there to be shooting over this? Not everyone is going to just let people get disappeared in front of them without doing anything.

        • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          Probably the Americans.

          Let’s see if they bother to take any actual real action though, or if they just keep insisting there’s nothing they can do.

          I have a vested interest in them actually doing something positive about their situation, because in a few years if they don’t, Europe and her allies will find itself in a World War, defending itself from Fascist USA aggression :-(

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      This is the Thought Police, brought to you by the people who invoke 1984 when their putrid opinions get called out on the internet.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      7 days ago

      White Rose movement got a girl and her brother beheaded in Nazi Germany. For pretty much this.

      Edit: (wrong flower and wrong relationship and yeah others were executed i just read about them)