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California Will Now Require ICE Agents To Show Their Faces - Gov. Gavin Newsom

Published | Video Starts at 04:39

People ask, well, is authoritarianism. You're being hyperbolic. Bull. We're being hyperbolic. If you're a black and brown community, it's here in this country. And so I, I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address the issue of masking. Also to require you have simple identification. To your point, I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition you're going to push back. (04:39–04:48)

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