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 ...

The commander of the D.C. National Guard said the Pentagon restricted ... District’s streets to assist police with traffic control and crowd management needed help, Walker said.

Guardsmen were given more protective equipment and trained in nonlethal methods of crowd control. In the past 50 years, the National Guard has also grown into a more diverse force. Today ...

Across the country, governors control their National Guard units and can make decisions ... election of Joe Biden as president. As the Jan. 6 riot was unfolding, city leaders were making frantic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...