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.

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    On a very personal level, I’m trans. Your voting ideology has directly contributed to the loss of my rights, my safety, and my future.

    Did you do everything you possibly could to save those human beings that are being murdered with our bombs and political support? did you make it plain to our dnc leadership that you werent just playing chicken, you werent going to just let them do whatever evil shit they wanted, even at the cost of your rights and your day to day life and trans rights?

    No. You didnt. You chose 4 years of trans rights and your own pathetic safety instead. And now you get neither. If you’d pushed back on Harris maybe she would have had a chance but you didnt and you lost. Harris chose to risk the republic, including your trans rights and she didnt pull off her plan to both keep the zionist money on her side and win.

    Judging by history, you losing your trans rights in the tiniest bit of pain that we’ll all go through before this is better and non criminal adults are in charge again. People are going to starve to death and be violently beaten up and have all of their rights taken away for BS reasons. Thats whats next-- a taste of what this country has been meting out to innocents and not really caring about.

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      EDIT: Can’t stand to keep your bullshit unedited? Not going to go on about how I only choose my safety and trans rights now and I have blood on my hands? Gonna pivot to the dem primaries, which in my state only had Biden on the ballot?