Summary
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, was detained in Somerville, MA, by masked agents claiming to be police, without charges or transparency.
The Trump administration alleges she supported Hamas, citing unverified intelligence, after her student visa was revoked.
Der Spiegel linked her detention to pro-Palestinian advocacy, including an opinion piece urging divestment from Israel.
The incident sparked outrage, highlighting long-standing surveillance and detainment of Muslim Americans under national security pretenses.
Civil liberties advocates warn of increasing government overreach targeting minority communities.
How are such agents alive? They are masked and ambush an innocent woman.
Where is the good guy with a gun?
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic (the internet has ruined my sarcasm detector), but the “good guy with a gun” is just a mythological figure invented by the gun lobby.
I’m not saying good people don’t pack heat, just that the “good guy with a gun” is about as real as the Easter Bunny.
It was part sarcasm, exactly that the good guy with a gun is myth, and it’s a myth that guns help defend against government overreach.
But there is also the fact that there is a LOT of gun crime in USA, and it is absolutely a risk IMO that these people could get shot by a vigilante.
But as you say, the good guys don’t pack heat, so those that do are probably perfectly OK with this.
Ah, makes sense. I live in a red state, so I have to hear the “good guy with a gun” fallacy pretty much on the daily.
The comment you responded to works either way.
Either it points out that the good guy with a gun is never actually there when needed, because its a fantasy character.
While at the same time, it actually wonders why not a single person opened shots at these masked men, in the most heavily armed country in the world.
One might surmise the potential reasoning for choosing to target a young educated woman whose political leanings would most likely indicate a lower chance of being someone engaged in the open expression of the 2nd Amendment, rather than say… some group of guys who are… indicates a possible need to realize how vulnerable groups should do a thought experiment and wonder about why they might want to or not want to start trying to become like more of the “less desirable” targets.
In an unrelated matter, has anyone read the story about those guys who occupied that one building and then just got away with it?
I wonder why people didn’t run up and start grabbing any of them in a similar manner?
Hey also, has anyone read up on the old patrols that the Black Panthers originally used to do in an effort to prevent abuse by law enforcement? Can anyone remind me what kinds of quippy clever signs they held up when they wanted law enforcement to stop abusing people?
Eh, I’d say about as real an ethical landlord. They do exist, but they’re never around when you need them.
But there are a handful of cases in recent history where an armed civilian stopped an active shooter. I think it happened with one of the church mass shootings, I want to say Georgia, but that might have been an off duty cop (technically a civilian).
Calling player 2…
Get Ready, Player 2!
You’re suggesting a bystander pull a gun on ICE agents? How does that possibly go well for anyone?
Are they ICE agents?
There’s a reason we, in the past, set up things like badges and uniforms to identify agents of the civil authority. It’s so we know there is at least the pretense that the rights of the person being arrested will be respected and that they will go to a location where they can be checked on and communicate with friends/family and receive legal assistance for the charges brought against them.
Masked men with guns shouting “I’m definitely police” and bagging a woman is not that.
Their bosses pretending this is good enough is, at the very very very least, endangering federal agents necessarily. To say nothing of the rights of the people they’re disappearing.
Anyone can claim they are ICE and take a woman off the street. There’s a reason why they need to legally identify themselves.
We need the Black Panthers back.
In a coffee shop cosplaying as a tough guy.
Massachusetts does not have a stand your ground law. It would be illegal for anyone else to step in with a firearm. She is also not able to acquire a firearm under Massachusetts law.
Not having a stand your ground law just means you have a duty to escape/remove yourself from the situation if it is safe to do so. It does not eliminate your right to self defense or extend it to defense of another. If someone is being kidnapped, they reasonably could not escape.
That being said, I doubt it would be ruled in favor of a defendant in this case.
She was also unable to acquire a firearm, and the police did technically identify themselves as police. Very shady overall.
It’s also illegal for people in plain clothes to abduct women off the street.
People carry a gun to protect themselves and their family. Not necessarily random strangers. In fact, most state CCW classes tell you to stay away from situations where you might have to use your gun to help others.
The good guy with the gun is either a cop, or a concealed carrier in the middle of the situation. In this case, cops were the bad guys.
It’s OK you didn’t get it.
Good guy with a gun is a myth, and is never there.
Still a bunch of masked men terrorizing a woman, should be an obvious target in the worlds most heavily armed country.
But even in this situation the good guy with a gun is absent, and the guns don’t help against government overreach, which is the
purposeexcuse for the 2nd amendment.Yup… the proper response to this situation as a bystander is to film and expose the situation. Even in a “stand your ground” state, it’s not justified to start shooting. (Not legal advice - ALWAYS know the local laws)
No the response is to fucking rise the fuck up. Because we’re next. They starting with foreigners but they come for us too. When they do Yes shoot fucking Ice agents. Especially masked men and women. Because thats fascism.
If I saw this shit, I’d execute the fuckers. No questions.
It’s easy to SAY that. You would also be in deep shit.
I’d die for it. And I would still do it.
Hopefully they won’t come for you just because you made that post online. You and I are on the same side, friend.
First they came for those with student visas
And I filmed from the sidelines.
And lived to tell the tale far and wide.