Helicopters Over DC Protesters Broke Regulations While Commander was Driving Home...

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Eric Garland
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HUGE UGLY STORY HERE. Extremely bad for William Barr and Trump. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇Check it out.

Katie Bo Williams
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SCOOP: The initial investigation by the D.C. National Guard into the two Guard helicopters that flew low over protesters on the night of June 1 found they weren't properly authorized to be there & were directed by a Lt. Col. who was driving home in his car.https://defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/helicopters-over-dc-protesters-broke-regulations-while-commander-was-driving-home-dc-guard-concludes/169704/…
3:03 PM · Oct 30, 2020

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/helicopters-over-dc-protesters-broke-regulations-while-commander-was-driving-home-dc-guard-concludes/169704/

Two D.C. National Guard helicopters that flew low over protesters in Washington, D.C., on the night of June 1 were not properly authorized to be there — and were directed by a lieutenant colonel who was far from the scene, driving home in his car, according to an initial investigation by the D.C. National Guard.

The superior officer who authorized the deployment claimed he didn’t know that the regulations required him to have higher-level approval to use the helicopters at all, and that in any case, he in no way told the lieutenant colonel that the helicopters should be used for crowd dispersal.

Now the D.C. National Guard and the Defense Department Inspector General’s office appear to be at odds over who should take responsibility for the incident, which became one of the most high-profile examples of President Donald Trump’s militarized response to protests over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by police officers in Minneapolis in May.

Senior Army and defense officials have for months claimed that they would soon release their report into the tasking of the helicopters. Yet the report has remained under lock and key, with officials saying nothing more than the report was currently in the hands of Acting Defense Department Inspector General Sean O’Connell, a Trump appointee.

The following article is based on internal Defense Department documents viewed by Defense One and on interviews with officials with knowledge of the events. It paints the most complete picture to date of the circumstances that led two D.C. National Guard helicopters to hover less than 100 feet above street level in what critics described as an unacceptable “show of force” against American citizens — and helps explain why, five months after the fact, there has still been no public explanation.

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[soothsayer]

1. Drumpf and Barr think it's funny, I'm sure

Don’t forget the weapons they TRIED to get

[UpInArms]

2. These "people" are terrorists

I hope they like being in prison