About 340 members of the D.C. National Guard had been requested by Mayor ... that their deployment was restricted to traffic control and crowd issues, and they specifically were not to be armed ...

continues to haunt the national consciousness. That shooting highlighted how Guard commanders employed combat techniques for a civilian crowd control event. The deadly shootings spurred reforms ...

the D.C. government can’t deploy its own National Guard for any task, as a state can. Not during a catastrophic flood, or during a pandemic. Not for crowd control or traffic control during major ...

I knew it was chaotic, I knew things were difficult. Hell, I was in the D.C. National Guard. I know how doing crowd control and riot control and transitioning to police functions is. I’ve served ...

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Rather, he was observing the riot on TV and calling allies ... who had effective operational control of the D.C. National Guard, to direct the immediate movement of the Guard, it would have ...

How federal troops are used in domestic law enforcement is governed by a pair of laws -- the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the Insurrection Act of 1807. Those dictate circumstances in which ...

National Guard members fear landing in the center ... desegregation orders in the Eisenhower years and to control the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Shah, from the ACLU, said civilian law enforcement ...

a move that would effectively take control of the Guard troops from governors. The National Guard was last federalized in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots following the police beating of Rodney King.

WASHINGTON — About 7,800 National Guard troops were on duty as ... and D.C. Metropolitan Police by helping with crowd management, traffic control points, chemical, biological, radiological ...

Members of the National Guard gather outside the U.S. Capitol ... that their deployment was restricted to traffic control and crowd issues, and they specifically were not to be armed or in riot ...