Posted on 03/31/2025 6:23:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveillance video shows.
The 30-year-old shrieked in fear when an officer in a hooded sweatshirt and hat grabbed her by the wrists as another pulled out a concealed badge on a lanyard and confiscated her cell phone.
Soon afterward, the swarm of officers who had surrounded her on the sidewalk pulled cloth coverings over their mouths and noses, some of them wearing sunglasses.
“We’re the police,” the officers said.
“Yeah, you don’t look like it. Why are you hiding your faces?” a person not seen in the video can be heard responding.
The masked officers handcuffed Ozturk and held onto each of her arms, the video shows.
One minute after the encounter began, Ozturk was led into an SUV and driven away.
The international student – who is originally from Turkey and on a valid F-1 student visa – was then driven “across multiple states,” including multiple government offices in New England, Ozturk’s legal team said.
The next morning, she was flown more than 1,500 miles away from her home to a staging facility in Alexandria, Louisiana – despite a court order about six hours after her arrest that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.
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Yay and Hooray!
This Gal was a lover of middle-east terrorists.
While in transit to Louisiana, Ozturk suffered from an asthma attack, according to an amended habeas corpus petition filed Friday. Throughout that period of time, Ozturk was not charged or given the opportunity to speak with a lawyer, according to the spokesperson.
It would be interesting to know what she’s done to put herself in this position. I don’t expect to get that from CNN or any other “news” outlet.
Jam your court order sideways.
Just a typical, innocent, 30-year old Muslim ‘student’ who somehow got a Court Order issued in six hours...
Be careful when you cheer for the suspension of civil rights by the state.
XiNN are terrorist sympathizers.
CNN slant on what really happened
There's always a back story - but you'll never hear it from the MSM because it rarely supports their narrative.
Pretty decent treatment considering what they do with us infidels in their countries.
Why would the officers be masked? To keep from getting doxed
Wow, dramatic much CNN? This “student” is from the country that allowed the Saudis to murder and chainsaw a journalist in their embassy.
If face coverings are so bad then theHamas lovers should quit wearing them
Good
or dogs, or their own citizens, much less minorities.
A little fact the media hopes we never learn is non US citizens do not enjoy the same level of rights Americans do.
Her lawyers will try to use any kind of hang nail or questionable circumstance to set her free within America.
If the ‘asthma attack’ doesn’t work, they may try the ‘was not allowed to observe Ramadan or the old ‘An officer touched and pulled and spat on her Hihab head covering!!!
(Thee Apocalypse!)
“Be careful when you cheer for the suspension of civil rights by the state.”
Be careful conflating citizen’s rights with foreign agitators.
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