No problem. I added you as a mod and removed the old inactive mod. Note that, since your account is on a different instance than the community, you will not receive community reports. It’s a known bug in Lemmy. It looks like a pretty chill community so I don’t expect you will get many reports, but if you want to cover your bases then I recommend making a lemmy.world alt and adding it to the community mod team so you will have a way to see them. If you use the Photon front end (https://phtn.app/) instead of the standard lemmy ui then you can assign anyone as a mod regardless of whether they have posted/commented in the community.

@kwoodall@lemmy.world, mentioning you here for transparency in case you come back to Lemmy and wonder what happened.

The headline and article are trying really hard to emphasize the mask angle of the story.

He was walking down Spindle Road, a residential street of tidy lawns and single-family homes in Hicksville, wearing dark clothes and a ski mask in August, the county police said in a statement.

… Mr. Castillo “was on the street corner, and somebody called in a suspicious person.”

When police officers arrived, they frisked Mr. Castillo and discovered a 14-inch knife in the waistband of his pants, the department said in a statement on Tuesday.

I expect he would have been stopped, searched, arrested, and charged the same regardless of any mask law.

Goodbye

Is this why some users downvote everything? To mark posts as read?

Yes, Blaze has been unbanned from the community.