What a difference five years makes. During COVID, the Left were all about masking.
It showed you cared and wanted to keep people safe. This writer still sees people wearing masks in public at home (and she saw many while abroad in Greece).
On top of that, show us any Antifa or BLM riot, and you'll see masks aplenty.
But now the Left has decided there's one group that can't wear masks: ICE agents.
Why? Because democracy.
Or something.
Perhaps most important, wearing masks could expose federal agents, local police, and the public to physical dangers that make the risks of doxxing seem minor in comparison. Armed, masked men appear sinister, even predatory. Beyond obscuring the facial expressions we use for cues about whether a person is a threat, masks are a marker of criminals looking to intimidate their prey while avoiding identification. This is why the ski mask is a cultural trope of the armed robber or terrorist. It is also why masked protesters undermine their own causes; the masks arouse deep suspicion, as bystanders may assume the protesters are just waiting for an opportune moment to break the law. Nor is that a baseless assumption: In my experience, masked protesters sometimes are opportunistic lawbreakers.
As ICE agents rack up arrests on the road to 1 million deportations, someone will inevitably, instinctively fight back against the masked men forcing them into a car, not because they want to escape law enforcement but because they don’t know whom they are trying to escape from in the first place, and they legitimately fear for their safety. As a former police officer, I can tell you that my first reaction to unidentified men in masks converging on me or someone nearby would be to take cover and prepare to fight.
Another possible hazard is that masked, unidentified ICE agents could be mistaken by local police for armed felons committing a robbery or an abduction. Misidentified police officers taking enforcement action in plain clothes or off duty have been killed by fellow officers with a tragic regularity. Perhaps most dangerous of all, as ICE normalizes mask wearing, it creates the conditions for violent criminals to pass as police while escaping identification. In fact, criminals have already started to impersonate ICE agents.
Let's be very clear about one thing:
This isn't about safety or democracy.
This is about the Left identifying, doxxing, and threatening ICE agents.
That's it.
That was (D)ifferent.
It sure does.
There's always exceptions.
The Left hates that.
Criminals are their constituents.
They do not understand any of that.
Of course.
The Left wants to enforce rules, not be subject to them.
Duly noted.
They're appalled by law enforcement.
That clears things up.
Yep. We told you about that here (and it wasn't the first time someone tried to kill an agent, either).
There's no way they enforce this against Antifa or BLM or their rioters.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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