[Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office] Matthew David Lopez was arrested after deputies spotted him walked down the road wearing a clown mask
This big government nonsense is getting out of hand. If someone wants to walk down the street wearing a clown mask, that’s their Constitutional right to do so!
In most places disguising your identity is considered a minor offense. The fact that they ran upon seeing a cruiser is pretty solid indication they were up to something.
You haven’t missed anything. That was all. He is charged with being in public in a mask.
[Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office] Matthew David Lopez was arrested after deputies spotted him walked down the road wearing a clown mask
There are more and more public cameras, and more and more people with their own cameras, taking pictures of people in public.
A mask is the only way to keep your identity from the feds. Otherwise they can easily track your whereabouts with facial recognition software.
So the question is, do people have a fundamental right to move from place to place without revealing their whereabouts. I think they do.
And I think that right could well trump the fact that allowing people to walk around with masks would make us less safe.
They should make clowns get concealed facial permits.
What a Bozo.
That is no different than Mitt Romney's hair!
Figures its Tampa. Ybor City in Tampa has facial recognition software attached to cameras aimed at citizens on the street.
"...an 18-year-old Tampa man was jailed Tuesday afternoon..."
I say an 18 year old is not a "man", unless he is in the military or the story is set pre-1950.