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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people don't know whether someone is actually a W enforcement officer or not this does not seem like a legitimate obstruction case. When officers don't present their badge, or actually state that they are even an officer and wear civilian clothing other people will think someone is being kidnapped. [/quote]
That’s what the Turkish student said. She thought she was being kidnapped and her life was in danger. Democracies don’t do sh!t like this. [/quote]

The Turkish student's case upsets me the most of all the ones we have discussed in this forum. She has been jailed for over a month in a Louisiana detention center for co-authoring an editorial in her school newspaper. The video of her abduction by six plainclothes ICE officers has been seen by many people and is the most dramatic example of thuggish ICE tactics we've seen so far.

The great irony in this story is that this is happening at a time when students in her home country are protesting the actions of the country's authoritarian government, which jailed the leading political rival of president Erdogan, in the largest wave of political protest in Turkey in over a decade. The government has banned protests and detained around 2,000 people. Almost 200 have gone on trial, mostly students. Notably, plainclothes police are patrolling university campuses, presumably to spy on students. Imagine the student's surprise when SHE was picked up by masked, plainclothes LEOs off the street IN AMERICA while the very same thing is going on in her country. We are supposed to be better than Turkey and other countries led by authoritarian quasi-dictators. I'm sure she couldn't have imagined in 100 years that such a thing would happen to her in the United States of America. I'm appalled and ashamed that such a thing happened to a guest in our country. If it had happened to an American student in Turkey, there would have been a huge uproar here. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/world/middleeast/turkey-opposition.html

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