No Secret Police: California Bill Bans Masks for ICE

California lawmakers introduced a No Secret Police bill to ban masks for law enforcement at all levels, including ICE, making it a misdemeanor offense. Other states need to follow suit immediately.

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California lawmakers introduced a bill to ban masks for law enforcement at all levels on Monday, which would include ICE.

The bill, introduced by two Democratic Senators Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Jesse Arreguin of Berkeley, is called the "No Secret Police Act” and it prohibits law enforcement from covering their faces, and also requires them to be identifiable via a uniform, name or other identifier.

This type of protection needs to be immediately enacted in all state legislators (in which Democrats have the majority, since Republicans are largely in lock step with Donald Trump and his administration) in order to protect people from masked intruders and kidnappers posing as police and to have some measure of accountability.

It should be obvious to anyone who is capable of critical thought that if a masked person — who does not identify…