A Red Hat

While doing an ICE school patrol shift today, I saw a parent walking a kid home who had on a cute, cat-eared knit hat. The hat was red. The child was about 7 years old... and a child of color.

Maybe the child has been wearing that hat all this season. Or maybe the parents got the child the hat so that in case they're snatched by agents of the state, the photos that are taken will be more likely to engender sympathy from strangers.

It's a strange country we live in, that I had to wonder such a thing about a kid's hat.