For once, common sense has broken through the progressive fog in California — and it came not from Sacramento, but from Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell. When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed his latest anti-ICE gimmick into law — a lunatic “No Secret Police Act” banning federal agents from wearing face coverings while doing their jobs — the idea was never about safety or law and order. It was another headline-grabbing virtue signal at the expense of public safety.
But McDonnell just said what every rational law-enforcement professional already knew: he will not enforce that idiotic mask ban. Citing basic tactical realities, he explained that directing his officers to cite or arrest armed federal agents over a misdemeanor statute — especially during volatile operations — would do nothing but ramp up tension and endanger both officers and the public:
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told Fox Los Angeles’ “Good Day LA” that his department will not enforce the directive from California Gov. Newsom.
From a tactical perspective, having officers cite federal authorities for what amounts to a misdemeanor could be unsafe, he said.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says his department will NOT enforce the “mask ban” on federal agents..
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“The reality of one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict over something that would be a misdemeanor at best, or an infraction. It doesn’t make any sense,” McConnell said during a presser. “It’s not a good public policy decision, and it wasn’t well thought out in my opinion.”
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