this is not a federal agent
I'm sorry to report that it is, in fact, a federal agent.
This isn't even strictly new. It's just new to middle class domestic white people. If you were growing up in Nicaragua in the '80s or Iraq in the '00s or Venezuela and Yemen in the last three years, you know all about this guy. If you were living in the hood during a police raid or slum clearance, you know about the guy. If you've ever worked near the US/Mexico border during an election year, this guy was all the fuck over the place.