The double standard on masks for rioters, but not law enforcement.
Two years after BLM rioters picked up $6 million in damages because the police officers trying to stop their rampage didn’t wear face masks, Democrats are trying to ban law enforcement from wearing face masks. California state senators are introducing a bill to make local, state and federal law enforcement personnel, especially ICE, wearing face masks into a crime.
In two years, the Left has gone from demanding face masks to trying to outlaw them.
Last year, the media promoted opposition to a proposed ban on face masks at rallies in Los Angeles after Hamas supporters assaulted a synagogue and local community members. Now the media is just as vocally denouncing people for wearing face masks as it used to attack them for not wearing face masks. But with masks, as with all else, it’s about who’s wearing them.
During the pandemic it became all too clear that enforced masking also created the privilege of being exempted from it as photos and videos leaked out of prominent politicians who had imposed the mandate unilaterally exempting themselves and their friends from it in social settings. Politicians who had preached the virtues of masking posed for pictures, unmasked, with forcibly masked children or at dinners with masked waiters in the background.
Last year, they insisted that their rioters had the right to wear masks while attacking police officers. Now they insist that law enforcement officers don’t have a right to wear masks while arresting criminals and illegal aliens. Last year, they claimed that rioters needed masks because of a “COVID surge”. Violet Affleck, a celebrity nepo baby who had pushed anti-Israel messages, whined that masks had to remain legal because she suffers from health issues. Now it turns out that having masks at political protests was never about COVID or Affleck’s health issues.
During the pandemic after warnings, fines and police intervention over any groups gathering in public, especially when unmasked, Democrats allowed the BLM riots to go forward. It didn’t matter how many masks were worn or weren’t worn. The ‘public health emergency’ applied to everyone except the rioters because, we were told, racism was a ‘public health emergency’.
Stopping immigration enforcement is probably a ‘public health emergency’ too.
The real purpose of masks at public events is to conceal the wearer’s identity and to intimidate the public. That is why rioters and Hamas supporters wear them. Especially while committing crimes. ICE personnel wear masks because of a rise in doxxing and attacks against them. The Left is trying to ban masks now to enable the stalking and threats aimed at ICE employees. --->READ MORE HERE
It’s not ideal, but with physical attacks against agents up 700%, the precaution is understandable.
It’s open season on ICE agents and others in law enforcement who work with them. No wonder they’re masking up.
On July 4, armed activists shot a local police officer in the neck during what authorities described as a “planned ambush” near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. In Portland, Ore., that same day, rioters and police exchanged blows.
On Monday, a Border Patrol official was shot near a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security says there has been a 700 percent increase in assaults against ICE agents.
And yet some Democrats see ICE agents doing their jobs as the problem.
In May, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asserted, “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets, they’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.”
On July 1, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., posted on X, “ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men.”
Fourteen Senate Democrats sent a letter to Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons that argued ICE has been engaging in “unprecedented numbers of immigration raids” and some agents have been operating “without wearing identifying uniforms and while masked.”
President Trump himself observed that there were few complaints when masked protesters effectively shut down Columbia and Harvard, so why the double-standard in opposing masks for ICE? --->READ MORE HERE
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