Pols, advocates in New York seek mask ban, comparing protesters’ use of face coverings to KKK hoods

Pols, advocates in New York seek mask ban, comparing protesters’ use of face coverings to KKK hoods

There’s no difference between a protester’s mask and a klansman’s white hood. That’s what numerous civil rights advocates and elected officials supporting a mask ban alleged Thursday as they further compared some of the recent pro-Palestine protesters to the Ku Klux Klan. Speakers stood in the shadow of Columbia University — the site of the controversial pro-Palestine encampment in April — on 116th Street and Broadway on June 27 and railed again…