The New Video of Federal Agents Ambushing a Student and Disappearing With Her Should Chill You to Your Core

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html

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  2. This has disgusted me in a way that nothing this administration has done in past 60ish days has.

  3. Every “I know he’s a bad dude, but his policies!” Voter should watch this.

  6. This is something you see in another country and thank God you don’t live there. This is fucking terrifying. 

  10. Absolutely fucking disgusting that this is happening in the United States. All the people that think this is okay are traitors to the constitution and I wish they’d leave and move to a dictatorship if that’s what they want, rather than turn this nation into one.

  11. Nothing screams freedom like government agents putting on sunglasses and masks as they arrest someone who hasn’t been charged with a crime.

  13. For those of you that remember Kent State (May 4, 1970), it’s time to be frightened in the good ol’ US&A.

  15. Scary shit. When are we going to finally say enough?

  16. I’m in tears. I don’t have the words to describe how utterly unethical and immoral this is.

    I grew up having confidence and some semblance of pride in America, but now I am embarrassed, ashamed, and disgusted.

    As one commenter said: Where is the due process of law?

  18. Law school was a while ago for me and I don’t practice criminal law but shouldn’t they, at the very least, identify themselves and tell her why she is being detained? It’s embarrassing that I don’t know my rights, I know, but what in the fuck?!

  19. Wait until it starts happening Americans who tweet against the administration…

    This is how it starts. Absolute scumbags. You guys seriously need to get moving in numbers against this stuff!

  21. All the people complicit in this administration’s criminal bullshit should remember that while Trump has immunity from prosecution for what he does in office, they don’t.

    (And might I add, no one has a stronger arm for throwing people under the bus than Trump.)

  23. Disgusting. Deplorable. Disoptian.

    Wrong on every level.

    Thats someones child. Daughter. Friend. Classmate. A real person. Desensitizing this behaviour is absolutely appalling

    It really makes me wonder is there any humanity left?😢

  24. America loves its spectacle, and in 2020, Portland gave us one hell of a show. A hundred nights of tear gas, rubber bullets, and burning dumpsters—a city pushing back against a system that had long since stopped listening. It was messy, imperfect, and deeply American in its defiance.

    Now, contrast that with the quiet, bureaucratic horror of Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest. No protest chants, no cameras—just an unmarked van, a revoked visa, and a vague accusation of ties to Hamas. The kind of thing that happens in places we claim to stand against.

    One was a street fight for justice. The other? A warning.

  25. Imagine this is your daughter or mother or girlfriend or sister. 

    This video should be spread far and wide. When people realize that the state relies on violence instead of law and due process to assert their authority, then the people realize  that law and due process are no longer respected by the state. And when that happens the people will feel no obligation to respect law and due process either.

  29. What’s to stop random “patriots” from grabbing people off the street and saying they’re police if we know this administration is willing to pardon them for doing any crazy shit they want against the government itself, let alone random immigrants here legally?

  30. What if she, well within reason, felt actually threatened and decided to stab one of her attackers? Because that’s what they are before identifying themselves. And it’s even reasonable to deny they are police, they could just be rapists lying about it. 

    Dangerous BS. We also see how some, so they don’t lose their jobs, will do stuff like this. I would like to think I’d hand in my badge if they asked for this.  Especially for breaking no laws. This is how they gear up for the rest of the citizens who show dissent in the future.

  31. She wrote an op-ed speaking poorly about the current administration. She’s under F1 status. She is here legally.

    They will start coming for citizens within a year. Any of us could be next. They have to be stopped.

  32. Hey, so are we sure these guys were 100% legit? Because the feds have been in my little town the past few days harassing the local Asian and Mexican restaurants – they are uniformed with unmarked (but obvious) vehicles. The guys in this video look super sus.

  33. Yet another reason for nobody to come to your country. This is some 1939 shit.

  34. Remember, amid the horror and revulsion expressed by most posting in this thread, through their prism MAGA followers watch this video with a sense of joy and glee — a perverted kind of justice porn for them.

    You look at Kristi Noem in full ICE tactical gear and see a terrifying Fascist Barbie. They see a brave patriot cracking down on terrorists and free loaders.

    Stop thinking there is a tipping point at which this ~45% of the population will wake up to what’s going on. It’s just ramping up their enjoyment.

  35. When they start “black bagging” people on the street, but no one is punshed for this egregious abuse of our civil rights, this is when the state has turned fascist.

    If you have ever wondered what you would have done when the Nazi’s were rounding up Jews…it’s whatever you do after today.

    This is not a test.

    Voice in the crowd outside Independence Hall: “What kind of government have you gotten us?”

    “A republic, *if you can keep it.*
    – Benjamin Franklin

  36. Those that remember unidentified and masked cops sweeping protestors off the streets in unmarked vans during his last administration knew this was on the way. We just got it a bit earlier this time.

    Welcome to the end game folks. They’ll tell you that they’re not gonna come for you, until they do and label you an enemy of the state.

    Call them what they are, fascists.

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