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Watch the moment officials detain Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk

39K views · Mar 27, 2025 · 0:52 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2025–2026

Associated Press footage of masked federal agents detaining Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her lawyer filed an emergency motion seeking her release.

Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as video evidence of the detention in threads about surveillance, civil liberties and government overreach.

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Cites ittroyvitAug 2025

Footage of student detained by officials.

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> People are still free to criticize Trump all they want. The First Amendment is pretty clear on this. I guess it depends on how you define "person." link link link link this video

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Cites itestearumJan 2026

Footage of a student swept into a van by masked agents.

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The claim was that ICE is going after people for protected speech. The link is a determination by a federal judge to that effect, with the allegation going all the way to the top of the food chain. If you specifically want a video, then here you go: this video This is a person being hunted and swept into a van by masked federal agents on the basis of her protected speech. There's no ambiguity here. The administration has said that's why they did it, and a judge has affirmed that as well (see prior link) I didn't claim arrest requires a warrant. I claimed it requires probable cause which is a far higher standard than DHS's claim to make arrests based on reasonable suspicion. The claim that arrests can be made upon reasonable suspicion is indeed flatly refuted by the text of the 4th Amendment.

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Cites itdoom2Mar 2026

Footage of arrest that resembled a kidnapping.

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The arrest of a Turkish graduate student in Boston looked a lot like a kidnapping.[1] More recently, ICE responded to a judge's order to release a detained refugee by threatening to detain her family and send them to Texas if they came to pick her up and then forced the minor child to stay in a hotel room with three agents. [2, p.8] These may not be cases where people are secretly being taken by the state, but it's not hard to see why people might call the government organization detaining people and moving them around so as not to be found "secret police" or "disappearings". [1] this video [2] link

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