- United States
- Calif.
- Letter
She was walking to break her fast. Five-foot-two, unarmed, carrying a phone and a backpack. Her name was Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Turkish national studying child trauma.
Then the black SUV pulled up. Three masked men jumped out. No badges. No uniforms. One of them snatched her phone. Another cuffed her. She was surrounded, overwhelmed, dragged off the sidewalk like a package being intercepted. A bystander yelled, “Who are you?” One of them grunted, “Police.”
And then she was gone.
That wasn’t an arrest. That was a state-sponsored abduction. No knock. No warning. No Miranda rights. Just masks, muscle, and silence.
Then came the kicker: a federal judge issued a court order hours later demanding she not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.
ICE said, “Oops — too late.” She was already on a plane to Louisiana.
THIS IS A LITMUS TEST. WHO’S GOING TO FAIL IT? We need to be loud about this! We need to hold this administration accountable for going against the law. This has to stop! This administration needs OUT or they will destroy everything America stands for.
