Not to distract from the rest of the weirdness about his arrest, but Him lowering his mask was irrelevant. There was camera footage of him that they used to trace him back to the hotel he was staying at, where they had a copy of the fake id he used on file. The name and address listed on the id were fake, but it had a clear, unobstructed view of his actual face on it. He had no chance of getting away with it after that. They held back the photo from the id and released the one of him lowering the mask, but they could have always released the photo from the id instead, and they likely would have been forced to release it if they didn’t get any tips from the maskless photo.

Not to distract from the rest of the weirdness about his arrest, it Him lowering his mask was irrelevant. There was camera footage of him that they used to trace him back to the hotel he was staying at, where they had a copy of the fake id he used on file. The name and address listed on the id were fake, but it had a clear, unobstructed view of his actual face on it. He had no chance of getting away with it after that. They held back the photo from the id and released the one of him lowering the mask, but they could have always released the photo from the id instead, and they likely would have been forced to release it if they didn’t get any tips from the maskless photo.