Cops behaving badly ...

"Is this when you grab your phone and call 911 to report an armed intruder trying to enter your home?" S2 #341
Then the Navy SEAL was asked why he carried a Sig Sauer he replied, - A SWAT team doesn't fit in my holster.

"It is kind of scary considering how this is supposed to be a republic, so then can only make laws to defend inherent individual rights." R5 #342
I doubt most politicians in Washington share that view.
I'm quite confident President Trump doesn't.
 
The more things change the more they stay the same - the man they based the movie on

 
So how can you charge someone if all you can say is that it was "a guy wearing a mask in an ICE uniform"?

The head of ICE has gone on record as saying he wasn't going to make his guys take of their masks or wear name badges because it might endanger them.
 
"So how can you charge someone if all you can say is that it was "a guy wearing a mask in an ICE uniform"?" S2 #348
Indeed.
The Nancy Guthrie abduction provides constructive contemporary insight into that, mask and all.

When candidates number in the hundreds of millions it may be difficult to know. BUT !
When the suspect is an ostensible government agent, ostensibly on duty, all they need do is canvas the payroll.
Thus,
if it was the Trump administration that wanted to identify the masked suspect, no need to wait until beer-thirty for the name.

So bottom line, Trump's thugs are masked substantially as an extra layer of protection for President Trump.

"The head of ICE has gone on record as saying he wasn't going to make his guys take of their masks or wear name badges because it might endanger them." S2
Did he disclose what such anonymity protects them from?

"Really? If so, what then? Murder? And getting away with it ?!" s #347
Yes, like Good & Pretti, so far.
Has Secretary Homan throttled the murders back?
 
" which of the 35 agents on duty that day did the deed?" #350
"35"?
I don't know how many are on each team. I suspect it's more likely to be 35 per shift than per team. BUT
even if 35, a close-up typical of those cell-camera witnesses have already captured should be enough.
Bottom line:
If the commander wanted to divulge the identity of an errant agent within the command, it would happen.
When it does NOT happen, it's a cover-up.

If their commander literally does not know where on Earth his team/s are operating at any given date / time, that's a separate problem, though easily solved by requiring the ranking member on scene operating a GPS tracker.
That information should corroborate written accounts of the agent's activities. If that's not SOP, it should be.

Even if there are identical twins on the same team, a mask would not prevent a determined command from identifying an individual on camera.

Bottom line, they're all crooks, from the gumshoe to the white house.
 
I don't know how many are on each team. I suspect it's more likely to be 35 per shift than per team. BUT
Payroll records will show who worked that day but not necessarily which team they're on. And I'd be surprised if these guys always team up the same way.
 
Payroll records will show who worked that day but not necessarily which team they're on. And I'd be surprised if these guys always team up the same way.
Yes.
I wouldn't absolutize my use of the word "payroll". It was substantially (though not entirely) metaphorical.
My allusion: a U.S. government $paycheck is a license to kill.

But the duty roster should suffice.
Whether the shift is divided into individual teams, with individual squad commanders, I'm not certain. BUT !
They are likely to operate for what they are, a paramilitary organization. That includes rank, and that means chain of command.

note:
I understand your skepticism / doubt here S2.
My reason for not sharing it is decades of semiconductor clean-room experience.
What I learned was:
when new to that environment, being able to see only the eyes, all else is covered, including shoes, hands in gloves, made it initially difficult to distinguish one co-worker from another.

But after a while we developed the skill to identify individuals based on details neophytes missed:
- height
- gait
- etc.

In the ICE / Minnesota case, don't believe the lie.
If the ranking member of such an ICE team tells you s/he doesn't know which team member "did that", s/he's lying, or stupid (below competence level, and must be reassigned). And in that case, the second in command can provide the information.
 
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