The Denver City Council is debating whether to ban law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks.
If it’s approved, the policy could allow Denver police officers to arrest immigration agents and other law enforcement officers who conceal their faces with masks while making arrests or detaining people.
“It’s a moral and constitutional question about how government power is exercised in the public, and what we owe both the people that we serve and the public servants asked to carry out these policies,” Councilmember Flor Alvidrez said in a committee meeting…