What do you call it when people supporting an authoritarian deflect to their pet issue because they think it owns the libs? You don't get to ignore due process

What do you call it when people supporting an authoritarian deflect to their pet issue because they think it owns the libs? You don't get to ignore due process just because crimes are alleged. That's the whole fucking point of due process - to ascertain exactly what has happened and not just take some thug's word for it when they want to boost their arrest numbers.