Black, Indigenous, and people of mixed ancestry are mandated to use a lantern when traveling alone without a white person/their "owner." As Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness poignantly writes: "Any white person was deputized to stop those who walked without the lit candle after dark. So you can see the legal framework for stop-and-frisk policing practices was established long before our contemporary era" (Garcia-Rojas, 2016).