Lots of the comments here are taking this post to mean "she wasn't kidnapped" when what's being pointed out is that "regular," "lawful" arrests are a lot more like kidnapping than is convenient to recognize. (And some people here have clearly never heard of civil asset forfeiture...)
Which is more important to emphasize, that an arrest is quite like kidnapping or that these abductions are without legal basis. I think the first point is important to make in some circumstances, but the second is essential to make in this moment.
You don't have to choose, you can say more than one thing? But also: having already normalized violent, questionably-legitimate arrests and police violence broadly was a precondition for these kidnappings.
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IMO normalizing "kidnapping" or "human trafficking" for lawless arrests now makes it easier for prison abolitionists to claim that lawful arrests are also like kidnapping at a later date...
And mostly they are not? Please.
You said it better
The Fugitive Slave Act is now a pressing reality in Texas, with a new focus on targeting black trans individuals. The Fugitive Trans Act is in full effect, signifying that we are no longer owned by private individuals but rather by the state itself. PP: blacktranstexas
Yup. A lot of people need to deprogram the thought of "the government using force isn't violence". Politics and violence cannot be divorced because politics IS the application of violence the same way that engineering is the application of the sciences
Honestly, I would use the word "abducted".
civil asset forfeiture, they can sorta arrest your money and you have to prove its innocent. Some would call it stealing under color of law, but other people are cops.
I keep thinking this about all these systems liberals have been supporting- we're ok with detention centers, private prisons, the very concept of prison...
And if we can call one thing an "arrest" and another thing a "kidnapping," that absolves us of having to notice the (pretty significant!) similarities between those things.
Yeah I think people are arguing it's ok to abuse people we suspect of wrongdoing which I am naively shocked by.
We should never tolerate conditions that we could not imagine ourselves or loved ones being subjected to.
They also refuse to call incarcerated folks as slaves when they're forced to do labor. These are always written with the passive voice as if no one did these actions to folks, they just sorta happen like weather.