LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville Metro Council rejected an update to the city's current mask ordinance aimed at stopping law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks to conceal their identities.
During it's meeting Thursday night, the council voted 13-12 to not add language to the current mask ordinance to clarify law enforcement is not exempt.
Louisville's current mask ordinance prohibits citizens from wearing masks during the commission of a crime.
The bill's sponsor, JP Lyninger, D-6, said it's a matter of preserving a free society.
"We have a serious problem in the United States right now. Masked law enforcement agents in plain clothes are dragging people to unmarked cars. This is an assault on civil democracy," Lyninger said during the council meeting.
Some opponents said they were against it, afraid to make Louisville a target of the Trump Administration.Â
"My fear is this: the passage of this ordinance could incite the Trump Administration and the ICE officials. They could look at this as saying 'Louisville's overstepped its bounds.' I think we've seen that from the Trump Administration already," Metro Council President Brent Ackerson said.
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