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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      As a Presidential Candidate, legally, she could take no actions unless she won the election.

      She told you, REPEATEDLY, what she would do:

      Cease fire, hostage release, two state solution.

      You call that “genocide”.

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        Jordan, No one believed her and they had ample reason to doubt her honesty in this regard. She was not some sort of secret human rights advocate. Her husband is a zionist, and she chose her husbands brother in law to be her campaign manager, who is also a zionist. Joe Biden also claimed he was working around the clock on Palestinians behalf. Do you or anyone else beleive him? But we are supposed to give Harris the benefit of the doubt when she makes the same play? Please.

        This campaign lost support across every demographic – some in a big way-- except for a single bump of 1 point in college aged white males. And now the “new” leader of the DNC put up an uber centrist zionist to rebut Trumps latest big speech. Nothing has changed, and Harris was never going to push against the zionist domination in the DNC. She was not the chosen one you think she was.

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          Whether you BELIEVE her or not is irrelevant. Her stated policy was NOT in support of genocide, on the record, repeatedly.

          You can’t blame someone for supporting a genocide when they repeatedly tell you they aren’t.

          “Well, I don’t believe you.” Yeah and people don’t believe we landed on the moon either. That’s a problem with the thought process, not the person making the statement.

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            And Joe Bidens stated policy was not in support of genocide either, was it. Because the laws dont care if a candidate supports it or not, its explicitly illegal. Biden got around that by claiming no genocide was occurring.

            Harris also said she couldnt think of anything she’d change from Bidens policies.

            And then when asked what about the genocide at a rally she said she believes in the protestors right to speak and said the war is real, but didnt say the genocide was. And then when asked again she said “I’m talking” and shut the person down. Sh always responded with a template which starts with, “I beleive Israel has a right to defend itself” and then she never said if a genocide was occurring, linking every abuse to “defense”, right out of the zionist marketing playbook.

            This is your promise of action, huh. This is your proof she was going to do stuff different?