One of the men goes for her phone. The other grabs at her hands. Ozturk screams. Shock and fear ripple through her voice. Two masked women join them, tugging at her backpack, peeling the straps from her shoulders. “I’m going somewhere, I need to call someone,” she pleads. “We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says in response.
They surround her. Then, one by one, they pull their neck gaiters up to cover their faces. “You don’t look like police,” a voice off screen says. “Why are you hiding your faces?” The questions continue, but the figures don’t respond. Instead, they cuff Ozturk, cross the street, and put her in an unmarked SUV. She is gone.
If you see this start filming and get them to shout their name. This is not how an arrest is done in a normal country. This is how you disappear people and how militias can fake being police to abduct and kill people.
Yup.
If plain-clothed thugs try to push me into an unmarked van I have to assume I need to start fighting for my life. I don’t give a fuck who they say they are. If you are who you are, wear a uniform, act professional, and show me identification.
Everyone needs to purchase a firearm and start training.
Former fireman salesman here:
Don’t just go buy a gun on a whim. Gun ownership is a responsibility with potentially deadly consequences if not taken seriously, and there are moral, legal, ethical, and practical considerations involved.
If anyone has questions about firearms, firearm safety, etc, feel free to reach out. I don’t support violent demonstrations or lawlessness, but anyone wanting to know about the tools for legal self-defense, hunting, and shooting sports is welcome to ask me questions.
There are also other ways you can resist a Fascist. I have a can of pepper gel I keep on me at all times. Anyone who tries to abduct me and put me in the back of a van, secret police or just random crook, is getting that sprayed in their eyes and mouth. Apply liberally to the face of the leopard trying to eat your face then run.
I advise everyone who is here on a Student Visa or similar circumstance to start carrying, whether it be mace or a firearm. But keep in mind the firearm salesman notes above. They are good ones.
If you see this, pull a fuckin gun on the kidnappers.
That is a sure way to end up dead.
you could be dead either way. why not take some with you?
It’s about odds and comfort with risk. The odds of dieing are many fold higher if you pull a gun. If you are say a mom of 5 kids… getting taken and deported, but alive and free is woth a lot more than it is for a 20 something with no family.
If you fail to resist a fascist police state you’re already dead.
And they need to escape unscathed every time. We just need to ensure that our ratio is 2:1 or greater. There are more of everyone else than there are of them.
Sadly, when it comes to thugs, there is no shortage.
There’s no guarantee it’s even the police. Could be sex traffickers for all you know.
I’m not so sure the alternative of being disappeared into an El Salvedor prison is much better. Besides, it’s time for the Fascists to feel the pain. I’m not a firearm carrying sort myself but I do carry a can of pepper gel with me. A gift for anyone who is trying to molest me.
What is the phrase… “death is so final”.
Americans need to understand that during a resistance there will be casualties.
Letting it happen is a sure way to end up in fascism. It’s kosher legally to defend someone in immediate physical danger.
Tell me, how do you imagine a PhD student getting in a firefight with five people and not ending up dead?
Also tell me: do you honestly believe that if such thing happened, the psycho-right wouldn’t spin this as “violent Brown attacks police who bravely take her down”?
They said black refugees were eating people’s pets, when their lies were exposed they said they are allowed to lie to foment racist calls to action.
Do you honestly think they’re just going to do catch and release?
The psycho right spins everything either way. It doesn’t make a difference, and we shouldn’t cater to their “news”
So, you’re saying that “suicide by cop” is the better alternative to having hope that lawyers and non-profit orgs help you? Or, I don’t know, you get deported but LIVE and manage to get to a civilised country?
In the 1930s and 1940s, the previous followers of this blighted ideology made 5 million+ people die in horrifying ways. I’m not keen on finding out how many this current batch of assholes is willing to kill. You try to abduct me or someone I care about, you get a face full of pepper spray, at a minimum. And I’m sure not going to look down on an immigrant or minority shooting down a masked secret police officer or 5. Maybe if they have to put their bodies on the line, the assholes will be less keen on trying to abduct people.
You are assuming those are actually police officers.
I’m saying a chance at life is better than none. If everyone gets proper gun training, it would increase odds.
When I say “do you think they’re doing catch and release”, I mean to say they are putting these people in literal concentration camps. Not just deporting them.
Lawyers and non-profits will not be able to do anything to help.
When they came for the jews, people saying things like that is part of why so many were taken. You need to fight. Not sit idle and hope the lawyers work. It acts as a strong deterrent for the coward fucks if they learn they can find out when they do kidnappings
I really don’t understand how you people say this without laughing yourselves.
“Everyone gets proper training”? How exactly do you imagine a teacher and a mother to go through rigorous weapons and tactics training? Boot camps? When are collage students supposed to do that?
Police are, you know, POLICE. They train this shit professionally. Especially in the US where departments provide what is effectively military-grade training.
Add to that the fact that not every state allows civilians carrying weapons.
Add to that the fact that weapons cost money to buy, and the people most in danger of getting attacked by the state are also those with the least spending money.
Add to that the fact that without specific training that creates a bond between members of a unit, humans will naturally try to evade danger, not rush into it. Which means that even if everybody on the street was armed, they wouldn’t have done anything out of fear that it might get them killed or wounded.
Add to that the fact that if everybody is armed, police would just start going around in full ballistic gear, with automatic weapons and armoured vehicles - they have more than enough surplus from the military and NatGuard.
I know. And that means these people are still alive and have a chance of returning to a normal life. Grabbing a gun near 5 armed policemen is 100% certain death sentence.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-judge-boasberg-venezuelan-immigrants-e7cca03d3c47b7b443d5374679ff290b
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html
This needs to be organised. There are protests happening, it’s just too little, too weak. People need to wake up and start opposing en masse. Weapons won’t solve this when you’re up against the federal forces.
I take it you’ve never seen videos of how US police reacts to a perceived threat? A random dude or gal pulling a glock against 5 automatic weapons means zero. It’s not “fight”, it’s just suicide and it’s pointless. ESPECIALLY when they’re not white, because then they end up being “the aggressive immigrant wielding a weapon against our brave police”.
Yeah this regime already directly said and demonstrated by their actions that they don’t care about laws or even the constitution.
There is no guarantee this is an arrest.
These people are not showing that they are law enforcement. For all we know we just watched someone get kidnapped by sex traffickers.
Bystanders shouldn’t stand by idle, if someone is getting kidnapped right in front of you, and you’re able bodied, you should do something about it, violently. Even if it means grabbing the closest heavy thing and throwing it at them. Yell, make a scene, yell out “kidnappers help me!” …etc
NEVER LET YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE BE TAKEN TO A SECONDARY LOCATION. EVER.
Anything your captors are willing to do in public is only a fraction of what they would be willing to do in private.
You don’t necessarily have to put yourself in harms way, but you can still show some level of resistance to kidnappers, rapists, and the rest. No one should just let those things happen in front of them, and simply pull their phone out to film.
That’s some psycho pass level shit.
Unfortunately most people are not going to put their life on the line for you. For reference the advice to women being violently raped is to remain quiet and pee on their attacker or yell fire. Because people do not respond to the words help or rape.
So we start a movement by asking people to do something less, be a witness. Don’t let them just disappear people.
that’s easy to say bystanders shouldn’t stand idle, but the problem is that can escalate very quickly, you don’t know what these people are packing and sometimes the police don’t even interfere when they should (look at that incident on a NYC subway where some bystander stepped in to stop a mass stabbing, the police in the next cart over watching this unfold, did nothing until the perp was incapacitated, meanwhile the bystander was in ER, and looking at a bill only possibly paid off through GoFundMe donations).
I think recording anything is probably the best course of action like you said.