Text from article: Basically, mocking works. We shouldn’t mock children because they often don’t know better, but adults whose entire personalities are centered around hating and harming marginalized communities? They deserve all of our scorn. The costumes also have a more practical use: safety for the wearers and potentially a public service for the rest of us. For as wanton as many of these agents of the state have become, what would it look like to see video of some of them beating people in inflatable costumes? It would only underscore how out of control they are and further bolster public sentiment to get ICE off our streets. There’s video of a Homeland Security agent shooting pepper spray into the air valve of Todd’s costume this month as he tried to help a fellow demonstrator who had been shoved to the ground. You do not look like the good guy when you’re breaking up a dance party and running behind someone wearing a child-like blow-up frog outfit to force a chemical irritant into it.