Watch the moment officials detain Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk
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Cited as video evidence of the detention in threads about surveillance, civil liberties and government overreach.
What it is
Associated Press footage of masked federal agents detaining Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her lawyer filed an emergency motion seeking her release.
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Cites troyvit · 2025-08 · on “Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"”
> People are still free to criticize Trump all they want. The First Amendment is pretty clear on this. I guess it depends on how you define "person." [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video]
Cites estearum · 2026-01 · on “Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] (1963)”
The claim was that ICE is going after people for protected speech. The link is a determination by a federal judge to that effect, with the allegation going all the way to the top of the food chain. If you specifically want a video, then here you go: [this video] This is a person being hunted and swept into a van by masked federal agents on the basis of her protected speech. There's no ambiguity here. The administration has said that's why they did it, and a judge has affirmed that as well (see prior link) I didn't claim arrest requires a warrant. I claimed it requires probable cause which is a far higher standard than DHS's claim to make arrests based on reasonable suspicion. The claim that arres
Cites doom2 · 2026-03 · on “Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk”
The arrest of a Turkish graduate student in Boston looked a lot like a kidnapping.[1] More recently, ICE responded to a judge's order to release a detained refugee by threatening to detain her family and send them to Texas if they came to pick her up and then forced the minor child to stay in a hotel room with three agents. [2, p.8] These may not be cases where people are secretly being taken by the state, but it's not hard to see why people might call the government organization detaining people and moving them around so as not to be found "secret police" or "disappearings". [1] [this video] [2] [LINK]