A California bill to bar law enforcement agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities was passed by a key legislative committee Tuesday. Senate Bill 627 prohibits law enforcement at all levels from engaging in extreme masking to conceal their identity. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/b...
That's a start.
FUCK YEAH!! THEY NEED TO BE TRANSPARENT!! WHY DO THEY NEED TO HIDE THERE FACES??
Great job. This is how to do it. Set state law against federal law. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov @democraticags.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
They can't be from law enforcement agency. So an American citizen can defend themselves like they can defend themselves from robbers and terrorists. Robbers and terrorists cover their face to commit crime! They are definitely Trump's goons acting like gestapos!
Nice idea, but if ICE wants, the federal guidelines will supercede the state law on this.
I have an idea, make it illegal to kidnap people too!!
Thank goodness!! The next step is to get rid of ICE altogether.
We need a bill banning ICE. Trump is building his own personal army. The BB bill gives 150 billion to this agency. He’s going to use this against all of us.
The similarities to Hitler's Schutzstaffel should be concerning. The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS)... 1/
...The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. 2/
Thank you California!
MAKE THEM ENFORCE IT
Does it go far enough? Does it require them to display ID, badget number, etc?
It should.
Yes "It requires officers to wear visible identification, such as name tags or badge numbers, to ensure they are identifiable"
They'll claim federal authority or some such shyt. Hashtag States Rights though.
Maybe we non-MAGAs should start masking up *everywhere* we go. It’ll make the reichwing nervous and it’ll end this crap.
About time. It’s shocking that anyone in law enforcement would think it’s right to conceal their identity. That’s what the Taliban do. That’s what criminals do. That’s what people who are ashamed of their actions or hiding from consequences do. It’s un-American, and these ICE agents are just thugs.
Well said.
this isnt "law" enforcement or politics. there is no law for them. historically authoritarians dont go THIS far. we've been told directly and indirectly in everyway. it doesnt have to be "bad" news if we take hold of our fear and start acting in tactical ways (storing water & talkin to neighbors)
*dont go this far and get stopped before its too late (its always too late to go back but there's a lot left to lose/not lose)
While I salute them for doing this, and I hope the bill turns into law, I still have one question... Considering how this administration routinely ignores court orders and the US Constitution, who will bell the cat?
Cali leading the way as usual!
Masks prevented them from breathing during Covid. Now, masks allow them to breathe freely during fascism.
I hate it when there’s fascism in the air. 😠
What about enforcing that? What are the penalties? Does it have any actual teeth?
The “state’s rights” folks will say the state doesn’t have this right.
They’re always moving the goalposts.
😎👌🏼💪🏼 #fmaga #fice #fdt
All states need to require law enforcement to be unmasked. The entire Republican Party complained, bitches, and mía es about masking to save lives. Now they need to unmask to save lives. I wouldn’t trust a city cop wearing a mask at a traffic stop. Why trust the masked monsters?
🎶🎶 California! A profit on the burning shore. California! I’ll be knocking on the golden door. Like an angel. Shining in a shaft a light. Riding up to paradise. I know I’m gonna shine!🎶 Grateful Dead
Wasn’t Trump vehemently opposed to masks during the Covid19 pandemic?
Funny the "I can't breathe" crowd seems to be JUST fine now
Only due to his own vanity and how he saw himself in a mask. Could give a shit about We The People.
Finally
Surely it's already a legal obligation to identify yourself and clearly state the infraction you're charging the person with?
The coup will be over before anything gets passed into law in Cali.
Promise? I’d love this coup to come to an end.
Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about Bill 627 and not just in CA. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
"And they'll never be convicted because of the primacy of federal law allowing them to do it." Which is true. But they can be arrested and kept off the streets, which will save lives, drive up their costs, and demoralize their goons. And a little time in a jail holding cell might not be healthy.
Keep it going Cali...you're setting precedents! 🙌🏼
Now start arresting the ice agents
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I love my State!
And @sfstandard.com @sfchronicle.com @indivisiblesf.bsky.social where is SF in this? Following suit w/LA by mandating the police detain "ICE" who refuse to disclose their identity, charging them w/impersonating an officer. @brookejenkins.bsky.social ofc told me they are Fed so can do nothing.
Whenever this name pops up on my feed I think of Jamal Khashoggi and his terrible murder. Thank you for keeping his name in mind.
Good.
All transparent states should follow suit.
Yes !
Maybe unmasking will cause some to resign.
This should be the law of the land. No Federal, State, or Local official may hide their identity using a mask. They must also identify themselves properly, and with official documents. Law Enforcement can still operate within these rules. It's not a burden.
But in the meantime all states should adopt this legislation, pass it, and implement it BEFORE the thugs amass in their states and cities.
Check out the tattoos also. They can be verified? Yes?
And if the don’t abide??… who throws the first snowball Crispus?
So how will it be enforced? That is the question!
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In the 240+ year history of the USA, no state, county, or city allowed their police force to wear masks and be anonymous. And somehow, the members of the police forces were safe and weren't targeted. But we are supposed to believe ICE agents have to have anonymity. Ask yourself why.
This is why. ICE is now manned by Proud Boys, Jan 6er’s, and other far right groups. ICE IS THE GELDING ARMY!!!!!
Gelding Army - I am stealing that. That needs to go viral
The Gelding Army. OMG, I am dying here. LOL.
Cool, by the way go tow truck drivers.
Identity shouldn’t be hidden at first
Does this mean they can arrest masked ICE agents and put them in cages?
About time! Now we can see the brown and black turds/traitors hiding in the white Nazi cesspool. 👀
So who’s gonna enforce this new law?
Awesome
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YES!
Only criminals cover their faces.
But what if their families are doxxed and terrorized? /s
Good, with identity comes accountability!
Excellent! More states need to follow California’s proposed law.
None of those fuckers wanted to wear a mask when covid was raging.
"face diaper"
I had some psychopath maga idiot stalking me around a laundromat a few months in because I was wearing a mask. Kept trying to breathe on me. They're all fucking insane.
Tough enough to be a cop yet too pussy to show your face then Law Enforcement is not for you!
Take off the masks!
Good for California. I like Newsom more all the time
Good
Wow. So now wearing a mask is illegal. This is just tyranny. Were still in a fucking pandemic for chris’sakes!
But if ICE contractors are not “law enforcement agents” (I mean, are they enforcing the law?) will this apply to them?
Yes!!!!!!!!! States rights, right? 🧐
just say no,. to masked secret police and fascism.
Good.
Finally some ray of justice in this wall of tyrants
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Does it also require them to present ID when asked? Also seems important.
There have been cases of folks being rounded up anyway "I need to make numbers" (paraphrased) and told they would be let go the next day only to be wrongfully detained for weeks!
Fantastic
Are these thugs wearing a badge?
Will be interesting to see if said law enforcement agents will follow the law. 🧐
Power to the people
Trump will sue. Case will make it to the Supreme Court and you know how they will decide.
All I know is there is NO BETTER STATE to live in with this fucking corrupt piece of shit trump admin
Still, we’d be much better off if we seceded. Living under the rules of the Confederacy is insulting.
There is no actual process for a state to secede.
There’s also no process for everything trump is doing to America right now
Read on. 😂
I know that. But what laws are being followed anymore anyway? I say we just go for it.
Just remember that, if California wasn't a state, Trump could LEGALLY send troops in and just start killing people. And he'd have a whole month to do it before he needed Congress behind him.
I know. I obviously have not worked out the details. 🫠
Nothing wrong with dreaming. 😅
For sure. Especially now. 🙂
I'm in WA State and I say, if ya'll do, PLEASE take us with you!! ❤️
Of course! You guys are awesome! And we need your rain forest. 🙂
Take the whole west coast with you. Would be an immediate economic powerhouse and the world would probably respond really well to a new friendly nation.
I am so down for that. It would be amazing! The people who don’t like it can move to Idaho. 😉
I should find one who wants to swap residence
Good idea!
Let them have the wasteland they always wanted.
Nevada must go with the west. Green energy and Burning Man are incongruent with Nazi stuff.
I could see it. You guys did vote blue in the last legitimate election.
An alliance with Canada and Mexico would also shut the US completely off from the Pacific coast.
I like it.
If Wisconsin and Illinois joined in we could also extend Canada’s reach all the way to Memphis.
I'm from the NE. I think NY and all the New England states would go for it if they could balkanize. New Hampshire and Maine might need some prodding, but they voted against yam tits in 2024, so maybe not.
Dodge the tariffs entirely, while having control of the markets. Governors need to step up.
Please have a generous refugee program. I'm in Utah and it's literally killing me.
I’m sorry. Utah is so beautiful, but I get it. I think we can push a few MAGA into Oklahoma and make room for you. 🙂
Great! I love California. It's such a cool place to see a little of everything just by driving south or north or east or west. We've spent a lot of time there. San Francisco has my husband's heart. Anaheim has my daughter's. I'm all about that Baja border. We'd never be able to afford it, though.
Colorado's pretty good. But love CA for this.
Yep.
That’s right. And anyone over the age of 14 can carry a taser…
Good, but I’m sure ICE will ignore it
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Good guys don't need masks.
Some of us civilians are at high risk for diseases and still need to wear medical masks when we are out in public.
I do wear a mask when shopping; especially in any store with a pharmacy, as catching a cold leads me right to pneumonia and bronchitis, and COVID would likely kill me. But I’m wearing a medical mask that doesn’t cover my neck like the gaiters or these Nazis are; my mask isn’t a disguise.
Buy by mail order to avoid your risk.
My household never stopped masking, for the same reasons. But with surgical or N95s depending on the risk. I have great concerns that those calling for mask bans will forget there are those of us for whom masks are a medical necessity in their rush to keep law enforcement from hiding their IDs.
Since I’m not careying an elephant gun,I don’t feel like any one is going to worry about me too much.
No problem, medical excemptions will have you covered. I bet you do not wear the same dark weird clothing & balaclava as the prople we are really talking about.
I do not, & even if I were a cop(and that would NEVER happen) I would wear a genuine uniform and I would look as professional as possible. These ICE impostors look like thugs. Even without the balaclava/gaiter stuff they wear, they dress like they are headed to hold up a liquor store.
Being unable to ID law enforcement means there can be no accountability. The see-thru gaiters ICE wears provides no medical protection, only a lack of accountability.
Please refrain from the ME TOO I HAVE A PROBLEM NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT. sad.
A fair point, just carry your Covid medical excemption certificate with you. We have to put a stop to those who are hiding behind masks for various nafarious reasons. They are up to no good.
Inserting the phrase “extreme masking” into the legislation is going to create a loophole through which they will drive. They’ll say they’re afraid of catching TB or a virus & need one to protect themselves and the ppl they arrest.
I agree! Whoever put that in needs to be looked at! A possible Trump sleeper cell! Our local police don’t mask at all! Simple “masking” would have sufficed!
…but not Covid, of course 🤦🏻♀️ /s
lol.
yes, the bill has an explicit exception allowing surgical masks. That said, those don't have the terror aspect that ICE wants.
This is about terror. Besides, they will just say it’s for medical reasons. SCOTUS won’t stop the mayhem & they know it.
At least we’ll be able to tell if we are being robbed or kidnapped by the gestapo.
Then arrest these MFers
Will they now pass a bill that law enforcement cannot break laws? We just have to do better, we desperately need to elect some adults.
This bill will expose all the NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT/FAKE Cop/bounty hunter motherfuckers. Let’s see if it actually works. #Fuckrepublicans
Good news! Let's see the faces of those thugs!
The Supreme Court’s decision on dismantling the Department of Education was also a masked assault against democracy
Fair enough. They demanded we stop wearing masks for health reasons.
This treatment of citizens whether documented or undocumented, should never happen, it’s a direct violation of the constitution
They know what they’re doing is highly illegal and unconstitutional. They’re hiding behind masks because they’re Cobridge and don’t want to be held accountable when administration changes.
Whatever, let me know when they enforce it
This is excellent news!! We need more legislation like this in other states. We have the tools to fight against the oppression (non violently) and our power is in the people!!
They're gonna do it anyway... And you know what that means? Citizen's arrest, baby! If you're gonna unmask these fucks, be sure to do it with 4 buddies and a great dane.
This is great news. The rest of the states should be doing what California is.
They don’t give one shit about laws! Who’s going to enforce it?
Exactly my question.
My sentiments about EVERYTHING in CA! Ive gotten such bullshit over the “smart cameras” supposedly put “everywhere”, yet they refuse to tell me how they are being monitored or even functional. I call BULLSHIT with “enforcement”. WE retain the right to enforce💥💪🏻
Are you talking about the cameras that cities, like mine here in Mission Viejo, have installed without public consent and plenty of opposition that read license plates and can store info for no one knows how long?
deflock.me
That's the one! $900k is what my city spent of OUR tax dollars and they didn't give a fuck what we had to say. Bunch of MAGA jerks.
Just wait til you see what goodies !$raHell has for our brave law enforcement agencies.
Is that really "new", though? I thought there was already tech the allows those with it to see heat sigs thru walls. (Don't make me think of Israel...ugh)
Old one you had to have it up against the wall. This one can be operated up to a football field away.
Go ahead, California!
All acquitted Jan 6 assholes
Will police actually do anything?
WE THE PEOPLE!
Sadly, Cali probably cannot pass a law enforceable against federal law enforcement because of federalism.
Should be a LWS everywhere. Otherwise they just look like the klan.
Now pass a secession bill.
This is the way
There's an immigration judge ShaSha Xu in New York who is evidently allowing the ICE lawyers to remain unidentified now.... www.salon.com/2025/07/15/s...
Pic #1: Life Realities: Black & White Pic #2: Stand Your Ground Law Exhibit #1 “I was in fear for my life..!!”
I was grabbed by an undercover cop in union square in sf for passing a joint in 1971. I thought I was being jumped I fought him and he pulled his badge. I apologized and was arrested. I knew he was a cop because he proved it. What happened to the norm??????
I'm ALL for this. No More Assault & Battery by Masked Ice Bounty Hunters or proper Ice Employees. You can't commit crimes against people in the US and pretend those crimes are necessary. They aren't. necessary. Just give them DUE PROCESS like the US Constitution says.
What hateful motherfuckers. Little boys playing GI Joe.
Overdue but grateful they did that.
Sounds like a spark
If they weren't the fucking cowards their children and mothers know them to be, they wouldn't have ever considered masking their shit mugs
Will that be enforced since they are federal agents? Can SCOTUS reverse it like they did others. You're in a hell of a situation 😢💔
Saw Cheese 😀
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Make it nationwide
All states should adopt this legislation and pass it BEFORE these thugs start amassing in their states.
I hope it also makes them have identification.
This is bull$hit. They, and their families, deserve their privacy.
No, they don’t.
Wrong!
Enjoy your secret police.
Thank you. I will.
Boo Hoo
Not when they are wiping their asses with the Constitution.
Give citizens the right to fight back.
They did that in 1791. #2 on the list of basic rights.
The right is already there.
It’s more than just the masks. Their behavior is atrocious and they act as if answerable to nobody. Furthermore, local law enforcement behave like pussies when confronting these masked thugs. Instead of protecting the citizens, they aid the thugs rather than demanding their IDs and unmasking them.
just saw in FL, local LE are stopping brown citizens for minor infractions, taillights, seat belts, etc and then calling ICE who takes them to the new Gulag. Citizens or not.
Awesome 👌
This is symbolic. Due to the Supremacy Clause, state laws like this don't really apply to federal law enforcement.
This is a good bill because it’s going to stop people from committing crimes not just ice because people are committing crimes and saying they’re ice
How about other states?!
🤔 I wonder what is considered " Extreme Masking?" I also wonder how they will use that one word to totally ignore the bill.
Every state needs to pass this bill!!
Kudos to the CA leg.
Newsom for President!
its physics, or biology ... either way its the same I'm a chemist 😎
Oh, don’t forget about masking for robberies! Saw a guy carrying an Amozan box (it actually was a delivery but using his own car—I don’t like that) the other day. Hoodie, cap & mask. No!
Yeah, Amazon has been doing their own deliveries. I typically see them in large white vans.
What I saw was unnerving, especially since our HOA have been embracing renters left and right. It’s a shame I have to put up with strangers trapsing in front of my MORTGAGED door…
People would be owning those houses if selfish assholes hadn't bought them all to rent them out.
Oh my god, RENTERS! Not them!! Lemme go find some pearls to clutch.
Ha, ha! You obviously haven’t had to deal with nasty drug dealers, or seen one shit metres from your house! Now go back under your rock!
Wow, your comments are full classist feelings. You boss people around like a MAGA. Bully dictates to anyone opposing you. Looking at a selfish string of "I, ME, Mine" statements. Are you sure you're in the right place, bud?
Blue vans here.
Utahns refusing to mask properly are why I have Long Covid, which completely destroyed my life. I fucking hate these people with a violent passion that would scare my therapist if I talked about it.
Hubby had Long Covid for four years (90% bed bound) and after a few months of doing nicotine patch therapy he's been 100% recovered for almost a year. I'm ecstatic he's back.
I am SO happy for both of you! Truly. Is he using 7 mg or cutting it in half literally?
Ah man it's kinda a long story. He started on 3.5 (7 cut in half) and went to 7 then went back to 3.5 and has been off all for months - since late last year.
Never heard of that! Interesting! I'm going on five years now. I probably will never recover because it unfortunately made my other autoimmune disorders all much worse.
I sure do wish Bluesky had other reactions than a heart! I'm so sorry you're going through this. If you want I can send you a podcast I made & some information about hubby's journey. I'm always willing to help others because OMG do I know what you're going through!! My heart goes out to you
They they law who the hiding face from surely not the immigrants either media or they fear cartel but why oh drugs I guess.
Go Cali!
Unmask, identify and attack all illegal Nazi Gestapo criminals roaming the streets!
If passed, it would only be applicable to state law enforcement, not federal, so it's probably more symbolic than anything else.
They probably won’t follow it.
I'm not confident police will enforce this, but im curious if tge media will have the guts to describe ICE as acting in flagrant violation of the law.
So it sounds like California police and sheriff’s will have to confront ICE if they wear masks. Will they do their jobs?
No, they won’t. Seems like all police forces, sheriffs are complicit to Trump.
Same question I had. How will it be enforced?
Then the communities must fight back against these heavily masked goons- They would be doing this because of Warrants on them and don't want their face recorded or reported - The people they are picking on don't even have traffic violations I still believe they should have documentation Jan6 goons
Every state should do the same.
About time
Other blue states should preemptively move to follow this lead. @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governor.ny.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov @demgovs.org @govandybeshear.bsky.social
These thugs have murder in mind when they leave THEIR family homes, but let’s see if this changes their behavior at all if they have to live in the open. They should be prepared for any consequences from their choices Never have pity for any of them. They must live with their shame and fear.
How do their family members, wives, kids, relate to their thug mentality? Either they: Are of same mindset Abused into submission Children taught only hate in the home
This ugliness goes back so far. The song “they have to be carefully taught” from the musical South Pacific explains it better than I ever could. it is the most simple lyrical expose of the rot that Republicans feed their children’s minds. Soon their children may be social targets as well. Awful.
I doubt most of them have loving families. At best, Stockholm syndrome cases
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Now let the local police start arresting them!
They won’t
California leading the way! Let’s encourage other states to follow that lead.
GOOD!!!👍🏽 Now, how will and who will enforce it? 🤔
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And who will enforce this???
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Thank you
Now arrest them.
And what if they don’t comply? Will they be arrested? By who? 🙄
Exactly my questions! Who will enforce this?
So far, no one has been willing/able to hold them accountable for anything.
Every blue state needs to pass this kind of bill immediately
GOOD.
Grl
Hope Gov Pritzker does the same.
No masks and clear, line of sight identification!
Now, to get it enforced.
We need this in EVERY state, since we know the Republican Congress will veto such a bill at the federal level. No masks, and require identification, such as uniforms and name tags. Also BAN bounty hunters! Criminals are dressing in fake ICE and surplus Army uniforms to kidnap and rob people!
MAGA is a Terrorist Organization , ICE is a Secret Police Force Conducting Ethnic Cleansing , Elon Musk is an Oligarch the US has many , Trump is a Foreign Backed COUP Figurehead "Useful Idiot" .. This is not an Administration , This is a Regime , And the USA is "Occupied" ..
Awesome. So glad I moved here!!
HOORAY!!! Think the FOURTH REICH will comply when they're already lying to and sometimes ignoring the courts...
They won't follow it.
Make it a state felony.
They need to speed up the process.
👏👏👏👏 Lets shove back in many ways !
But...trvmpers don't follow any laws except nationally when it hurts Dems
Bravo California. Now let’s see other states do the same.
Except ICE isn't subject to state law, is it?
This law bars law enforcement at ALL levels. They would have to comply with our state law if they want to operate here.
Doubtful that a state law could regulate federal agents' behavior, which is why Dems in Congress are promoting a no-masks bill there.
They will ignore it then claim federal superiority over the state. that despite the states rights claims that happen when convenient
Police will need to arrest masked agents
Will the California cops enforce it against their federal brethren, that's the real test.
Cover photo is mild masking. Most terror squads attack full facemask.
What is going on in America is just wicked!
Get these ICE agents out of our town !
Good.
It will run up against the supremacy clause in the Constitution.
Thank you California for fighting back. And 2k of the 4k national guard are leaving Los Angeles says the pentagon! After court order stopped the trump Nazi goons. California is just getting started👊💪🏻
Will LAPD arrest them for wearing masks?
Right! If they want to destroy America, show your face
How is this even an issue? Law enforcement shouldn't be allowed to dress like the bad guys.
Wonder how many of the male White Nationalist AmeriKKKan ICEholes will still want to do their jobs IF they can't hide their identities? lol
Ha! Not those cowards.
Should be interesting to see how this will be enforced and by whom.
Like everything in over-the-top, freedom-loving CA, it won’t be, but at least we can lean on a piece of legislation to help defend our right of self-defence well deserved💪🏻
Performative law. Soon ICE will be showing up in police uniforms to arrest people in ICE uniforms arresting people in masks who don't want to be ripped from the street by ICE. Did I get that right?
If these thugs weren't breaking the law and brutalizing people they wouldn't have to worry about their safety. They are in danger regardless, innocent people will just take so much before they snap.
Maybe that will cause them to be a bit more above reproach. God have mercy!
Good! Of course the orange 🍊 menace will try to fight it in court but it has to be done.
This will be interesting if it passes. Who would enforce it? I know who would be expected to. Would they challenge federal officers or just refuse to follow the law themselves. Like I said, it will be interesting.
Okay, great… BUT there is still a big question in the air as to whether or not ICE even qualify as law enforcement agents. If that’s been answered I haven’t seen it yet.
What's the penalty, who enforces it??
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