Star Wars taught me everything I need to know about Masked Stormtroopers!
What is happening in the United States of Trump™, with secret police rounding people up off the streets with no warrants or even probable cause, is Fascism 101. I was able to understand that even as a child, seeing how the stormtrooper checkpoint on Tatooine instilled fear into the population.
How are people targeted by these goon squads supposed to know that they are even really law enforcement, or that they will be processed through legitimate channels & procedures?
All local, state, & federal law enforcement should be required by law to display their faces, identification, a body cam, and maybe even a QR code badge that links to a national database.
This would allow citizens to instantly verify that the person is not just a malicious actor who is impersonating an officer. The penalty for not complying would be jail time.
This is in my dream world, of course - where we do not have authoritarian psychos in charge.
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