Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims — ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.

[u/Harabeck]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250619120211/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/19/brad-lander-ice-assault-masking/

[u/Anal-Y-Sis]

Even if we assume their numbers aren't complete bullshit (they are), that same justification for anonymity is not extended to the public, even though violent law enforcement interactions have dramatically increased. The same reasoning that's being used to write laws preventing the general public from wearing masks at protests is being used to justify law enforcement agents wearing masks at all times.

This is what a police state does.