She was walking to break her fast. Five-foot-two, unarmed, carrying a phone and a backpack. Her name was Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Turkish national studying child trauma.
Then the black SUV pulled up.
Three masked men jumped out. No badges. No uniforms. One of them snatched her phone. Another cuffed her. She was surrounded, overwhelmed, dragged off the sidewalk like a package being intercepted. A bystander yelled, “Who are you?” One of them grunted, “Police.”
And then she was gone.
That wasn’t an arrest. That was a state-sponsored abduction.
The video is a damning indictment.
There’s no need for speculation. The video is public. Watch it. Stomach it. Feel the dread settle in. This isn’t an overseas intelligence op. It’s not Kabul. It’s not Tehran. It’s Somerville, Massachusetts. A U.S. college town. And the Department of Homeland Security is operating like a black-bag unit.
No knock. No warning. No Miranda rights. Just masks, muscle, and silence.
You expect this in dictatorships — not next to a Dunkin’ Donuts.
Homeland security says, “Trust us.” They don’t deserve it.
The feds claim her visa was revoked because she allegedly provided “material support” to Hamas. They won’t say what that means. No evidence has been presented. No charges. No trial. Just one word: terrorist — tossed like chum into the water so no one asks questions.
Then came the kicker: a federal judge issued a court order hours later demanding she not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.
ICE said, “Oops — too late.” She was already on a plane to Louisiana.
A scholar studying child psychology at Tufts. Shipped to a for-profit detention center like she was a threat to national security.
No lawyer. No hearing. No rights.
What’s the real crime here? Being Muslim? Being foreign? Supporting the wrong cause?
The university barely whispered.
Tufts President Sunil Kumar issued a safe, neutered statement. He called it “distressing.” Students called it what it was: a kidnapping. Thousands of them flooded Powder House Square in protest, holding signs that said “Free Rumeysa” and “We Are Not Safe.”
Because they’re not. Because none of us are.
Not if this country is going to treat political dissent like terrorism. Not if immigration law is just a tool for erasing inconvenient voices.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political cleansing.
Let’s drop the bullshit. This wasn’t about security. This was about sending a message — loud and brutal — to every international student, every Muslim woman in a hijab, every academic who dares speak up for the wrong side.
This is what authoritarianism looks like in America in 2025. No jackboots. No gulags. Just a clean press release, a vague accusation, and a plane ticket to nowhere.
They won’t call it fascism. But it moves like fascism. It hides behind national security, weaponizes fear, and disappears people in plain sight.
And now they’ve done it to someone with credentials, with visibility, with institutional protection.
Imagine what they’re doing to those without.
This is a litmus test. Who’s going to fail it?
If you’re not enraged, you’re not paying attention. This wasn’t just about Rumeysa Ozturk. This was a dry run. A systems check. A test balloon to see how much backlash the regime gets for disappearing a foreign student from a liberal university.
The answer? A few statements. Some protests. No consequences.
So here’s the question: who’s next?
Because the SUV will roll again. The masks will come again. And next time it won’t be a child development scholar. It might be a journalist. A protester. A teacher. A neighbor.
Or you.
