Banning masks at protests is a bad idea

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Good for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to study how to prevent a recurrence of the kind of violence that took place Sunday at Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson. But the idea to ban masks should be dismissed.

One of the ideas that Mayor Karen Bass listed that the city could consider in response to violence Sunday outside Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson area was the role of masks at protests. To be clear, she didn’t say that masks at protests ought to be banned. But for many who listened to her address at the Museum of Tolerance Monday, that was the takeaway. A potential mask prohibition became the focus of news and social media discussion.

American citizens who speak anonymously or hide their faces might want to avoid police surveillance, and they should be able to do that as long as they don't threaten or inflict immediate harm on others or engage in other forms of law-breaking. As government and private companies track people’s movements through license-plate readers, traffic cameras, cellphone tracking and other technology, Americans who value their privacy and their rights need not simply give in.

 

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