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More make it illegal to turn off their body cameras. Oh and enforce it all. Make 3rd offences mandatory termination with an attached ban on law enforcement jobs for 2 years.
While I'm at it is like a billion dollars and a unicorn.
funny how states are still afraid of doing anything above banning masks, should be banning from public property
Shame it needs to be law. It used to be common sense that having armed masked lawless thugs roaming the streets was A Bad Thing.
Even more of a shame that laws mean nothing to ICE.
So what happens when they do it anyway and receive federal protection for doing so? Because that's my guess regarding how this restriction is going to go. These fucks already break laws - they probably aren't going to be super likely to follow the law that makes them easier to identify after they break other ones.
IIRC this is actually a civil suit, it requires the citizen to make the lawsuit, which makes it even more teethless. I actually wish this wasn't getting this much reporting on as I think it's pretty worthless fanfare.
"It's illegal for law enforcement to wear masks, and he was wearing a mask, so he must have been a private citizen committing assault, so I put two rounds in his dome."
I'd love to see this clash, but I doubt it will happen. A law that isn't enforced is worthless.
Just gotta get the red hat wearing child rape fan in the local PD to come arrest them. Ezpz.
They have to clarify this applies to all law enforcement, because a similar California law got struck down because Gov. Gavin Newsom's Office insisted on exempting State Patrol.
And they BETTER be Ready for some VERY VERY VERY Stern Letters when they DONT listen to the Judges Rulings!
You joke, but those letters will have a letterhead and printed signatures.
This is a nice symbolic gesture.
However, they will keep wearing masks in spite of it, because they're FEDS and they look upon the State government with contempt, one step away from how they look at "civilians".
More of this dems!
how is the supremacy clause settled?
regardless, I didn't vote for the legislators who created ice, nor the judges who settled any of the relevant case law. abolish all those laws
There is no federal law that says ICE can wear masks, it's policy only, which means state law should hold. There would need to be an actual federal law passed to supercede it.