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The leak is great, but I can't understand how we don't already have democratic state legislatures passing laws requiring all ICE and other LEO to show their faces and identify themselves.
If they are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide, right? But Noem, Trump, Miller know that the inverse is true in this case: They hide, so they can do wrong. But no, the people with the state-sponsored monopoly on violence get to hide behind masks, while the law-abiding citizens and residents have to show their ID or get arrested.
I think legally requiring them, under threat of criminal charges, to show their face will reduce their aggressiveness substantially - when there are no other checks on their power, why is this easiest one not top of the list?
States have virtually no authority to regulate federal agents in that way. That's why you don't see laws like that.
Except for the bills that WA is working on passing ...
They can pass a bill all they want, but if they're trying to regulate things like what a federal officer wears while on duty, it's going to get struck down by the courts, in this administration or any other.