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Posted on 01/30/2026 7:51:39 AM PST by TheDon
Los Angeles police do not plan to enforce recently enacted state and local bans that prohibit federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks during enforcement operations, the police chief said Thursday.
Chief Jim McDonnell, when asked at a news conference about mask bans, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in September and which separately won approval by Los Angeles County supervisors, said he disagreed with the policies, citing the possibility of conflict between police and other agencies if they were to be enforced.
“The reality of one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict over something that would be a misdemeanor at best or an infraction, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s not a good public policy decision and it wasn’t well thought out in my opinion,” McDonnell said.
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The law went into effect on Jan. 1, but is not being enforced after the Department of Justice has mounted a challenge to its constitutionality, stating that it creates risks for agents, including doxing and harassment.
A similar ordinance was approved in December by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, affecting law enforcement who operate in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the law enforcement agency that patrols unincorporated Los Angeles County, said that federal law makes the department unable to enforce the ban.
“Federal law governs civil immigration matters, and under the U.S. Constitution, federal authority supersedes state and local laws. As a local law enforcement entity, we do not create federal policy, but we are required to operate within the legal framework it establishes.
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Bottom line, state and local laws cannot preempt federal law or law enforcement.
It's just partisan political theater.
But Covid!! They NEED masks! Don’t kill Grandma!! Remember?!
The gay boi politicians that pimp this law should be arrested, charged with aiding and abetting admitted political assassins like Jay Jones from Gabby Spamburger’s colony and their asses thrown in jail.
Law enforcement types are cut from the same cloth and that’s why there are unions. They can arrest a surfer over covid because an individual cop can be punished for not doing his job but when all of them are ordered to do something they downright against it puts the chiefs in a position they really did not sign up for. Will they show courage or make a lame-ass attempt to thread the needle as a few have done? They ultimately have to answer to the rank and file.
No masks places enforcement officers and family members at a high risk.
A lot of crazy people around waiting for that option.
Hahah…. how quickly the left flip-flops as it suits their narrative. Just like we’ve seen them flip-flop on the second amendment and suddenly support citizens carrying guns.
Unmask law enforcement, while givibg 10 year mandatory sentence for doxxing.
I’d like to see the guy talking to me, arresting me, so I can complain, sue. But tracking publicly/doxxing....10 years.
LAPD police chief is just saying as politely as possible to the childish, performative political leaders of LA, he clearly has no power or ability change the behavior or policies of Federal government.
Armed cops arresting other armed cops is more a feature of the idiot keystone kops at the BATF.
Maryland’s General Asylum (Assembly) just went into session. As a time when energy bills are tripling due to their failed green agenda, the number one issue on their docket is masks on Federal Officers.
Morons.
Can they make Newsome wear a mask? Please.
I don’t like the idea of LEOs of any kind wearing masks.
And the regulation to deny radicals the right to wear masks is coming soon???????? Wait......
Why so their family’s can be killed or them?.
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