Trump says protesters will not be allowed to wear masks
Trump says protesters will not be allowed to wear masks
Trump said people participating in protests in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks and praised the National Guard for “a job well done” after deploying them to the city to settle the protests.
“These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” he wrote on Truth Social early Sunday morning. “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”
…yet it’s perfectly fine when the federal agents wear masks and/or fail to identify themselves. Fucking hypocrites.
reminder: if they do not identify THEY ARE KIDNAPPING YOU. Respond as you would during a real kidnapping. BECAUSE YOU ARE IN ONE.
If you attack them the law is on their side even if they don't identify themselves:
[18 U.S. Code] Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical. That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.
Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.
I'm pretty sure that's not within his power to dictate people can't wear masks.
To be fair, people have been saying "I’m pretty sure that’s not within his power to dictate" for the past six months or so, and it hasn't done a whole hell of a lot of good. Granted, this will be more difficult to enforce, but I can see a whole lot of people being arrested on a whole lot of trumped-up charges for wearing masks at a protest.
As illegal as his order may be, it'll still end up being you that is arrested. You that is put in jail. You that is denied your civil rights. You that will have to face an uphill battle in a MAGA-rigged court system with virtually no resources against the US government. Trump will face no repercussions. He is immune from prosecution. He will not even know your name, much less be inconvenienced by your arrest. He can pardon any cronies who are charged for violating your civil rights. Trump knows this, and he is acting accordingly. He knows that the fact that this battle is so lopsided in his favor is itself enough of a deterrent to make many rank-and-file people back down.
He knows the order is illegal. But he also knows that the overwhelming majority of people aren't in a position to do anything about it.
I definitely agree with you, I just felt like it needed pointed out. I don't think people should stop calling out the unlawful/illegal shit he does just because he does unlawful/illegal shit all the time.
It's pretext to be able to designate a riot when someone in a peaceful protest has a mask.
That, and/or they'll do the time-consuming thing of recognizing people that aren't wearing masks, and arresting them at their homes or places of work.
Probably not de jure, but like most things, no one is stopping him, so he will continue to dictate.
Oh, I hear you. I just wanted to point it out.
“Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”
Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???
Ask ICE this question...
Don’t want their friends and family to know what cowardly weaklings they are.
And Nazis. They wear masks to demonstrations, too
paid troublemakers
Yes, Donnie, let's talk about them. How much are you paying the troublemakers to go in and turn the protests violent?
Silly rabbit, masks are for stormin the Capitol!
Get fucked. If the police and other agents are masked, the protesters stay masked. Eat the shit directly from my asshole, donnie.
It’s literally 10:30 AM in LA. National guard hasn’t done anything.
You out there?
Well that's not really how civil disobedience works now is it.
Who do I email to to get paid to be a troublemaker? I’ve got experience.
Probably here: https://www.cia.gov/contact-cia/
Watch me
Lol
I do believe the correct response is "make me."
If people are getting paid for protesting, why the heck am I doing it for free!?!?!?
let’s ensure ICE agents don’t get masks too.
IF they want to Wear Masks they MUST be Kidnapping CHILDREN! OTHERWISE you BETTER not Hide Your Identity or FILTER the Poisonous Gas the US Government is USING on YOU!
HEAR YE HEAR YE FOR THE KING HATH TROOTED, LET IT BE SO
Of course trumps thinks they are being paid to do this. After all that asshole has to pay people to do things like this. Even if its nothing but bigoted atta bois.
There weren't any issues on the protest side to declare a success. It was pretty quiet last night when I was checking the live steams. It looked like there were way more ICE than protesters.
Here are some links of the live streams you can check out for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MfqiO3QQk
Here's another view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPTnHNEUiE
donvict's goon squad is trying to start something that they'll then turn around and blame 'protesters' as they mow 'em all down and haul away those who survive.
I wish someone actually paid troublemakers. I’d be in a Scrooge McDuck tower just swimming in money.
Allowed
