"That ruling was not a rejection. It was a roadmap."

Courts already established that federal officers can do their jobs without masks. California is now building a bill specifically on that finding, which means if it survives the Ninth Circuit, the legal architecture applies well beyond Sacramento.

The testimony from Daniel Rascon is worth sitting with — masked, armed men surrounding a vehicle, refusing to show ID, then firing as the family drove away. If you think through that scenario from a self-defense standpoint, it's a nightmare. No identification, no indication of lawful authority, lethal force. The rules of engagement on both sides of that encounter get murky fast.

The officer doxing concern Senator Seyarto raised is real and shouldn't get dismissed. There's a difference between accountability and publishing home addresses — those aren't the same thing, and a serious bill should address both.

Have you ever had an interaction with a federal law enforcement officer — on a range, at a checkpoint, anywhere — where identification was unclear or not offered? Curious what that looks like on the ground in Idaho.

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