One thing this decision drives home—simply by reciting the facts—is that Ozturk was violently abducted with only the thinnest veneer of legality. I know we’ve all seen the video, but it’s also wild that her captors refused to let her speak with her lawyer for a full day. Looks like a kidnapping.
BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14.
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ICE has abandoned almost all the trapping of a lawful arrest. Its officers cover their faces, conceal their identities, use gratuitous force, and transport their targets across state lines to stop courts from intervening. The distinction between an ICE arrest and criminal abduction is disappearing.
May 7, 2025 15:19I still don't understand how it is legal for them to cover their face and not identify themselves as law enforcement
Which trapping(s) of lawful arrest were present here??????
Whatever happened to
#StandYourGround laws or is that only for killing black folks?
There is no difference. These ice people are living their dream. I look forward to the day they reap what they are sowing
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Local law enforcement in some place where these abductions occur needs to file criminal indictments. They might get dismissed on some supremacy-related basis, but they might not, and either way the point is made that this is criminal conduct and people risk going to prison if they work for ICE.
Well said
Or rather, with FSB disappearance.
Someone’s gonna get shot.
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