US EditionIn American Life, a Growing and Forbidding Visual Rises: The Law-Enforcement Officer in a Mask
CALIFORNIA, JUL 15 – A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta, urges Congress to mandate ICE agents show identification and ban masks amid a 700% rise in assaults.
- On July 8, Mary Ann Pacheco, a member of the Whittier City Council, brought forward a proposal that would require federal agents to reveal their identities and prohibit them from wearing masks during enforcement activities.
- The ordinance follows concerns over ICE agents conducting arrests and detentions in plain clothes with masks, creating fear amid President Trump's immigration crackdown.
- The ordinance passed a 4-1 motion on August 12 directing staff to review Pacheco’s proposal and public comments, with findings due at the next council meeting.
- Similar measures include California's No Secret Police Act, advancing with five votes, which bans masked law enforcement and requires visible agency names and badge numbers.
- These initiatives respond to calls by officials like Michigan's AG Nessel and Senator Wyden to increase transparency and reduce fear caused by unidentified masked agents.
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For weeks, unidentifiable men and women wearing neck gaiters, mismatched camouflage attire, gloves and baseball caps have stood outside hearing rooms at the federal immigration courthouse in Lower Manhattan. They block stairwells and elevators, waiting for immigrants to leave mandatory court appointments, before handcuffing them and taking them to processing centers. Family members may wait days… Source
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In American life, a growing and forbidding visual rises: the law-enforcement officer in a mask
Immigration enforcement agents are detaining people and taking them into custody, at times under public anger and outcry. What’s often not visible are the agents’ faces, covered by caps, sunglasses, pulled-up neck gaiters or balaclavas, effectively rendering them unidentifiable. The…
In American life, a growing and forbidding visual rises: The law-enforcement officer in a mask
In a matter of months, it has become a regular sight around the country — immigration enforcement agents detaining people and taking them into custody, often as public anger and outcry unfold around them. But in the process, something has disappeared: the agents' faces, covered by caps, sunglasses, pulled-up neck gaiters or balaclavas, effectively rendering them unidentifiable.With the year only half over, the covered face — as deployed by law e…
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