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Source: The Daily Beast
Over 100 personnel from the Justice Departments Bureau of Prisons, as well as others from the Marshals Service, are preparing to mobilize to the streets of Washington, D.C., for confronting potential election-related unrest, according to a document acquired by The Daily Beast and confirmed by the BOP.
The mobilization suggests that the Justice Department is reprising its activities from June. Back then, in response to Black Lives Matter protests, it corralled law-enforcement personnel from lesser-known Justice Department components and deputized Department of Homeland Security personnel, ostensibly in the name of protecting federal property in D.C. Many of those personnel wore minimal insignia and were often kitted up in military-style body armor, intimidating demonstrators and sparking an outcry.
Dated Oct. 29 and titled a Deployment Roster, the Bureau of Prisons west coast regional director, Melissa Rios, detailed for a senior BOP official, Assistant Director Andre Matevousian, the revised mobilization of 110 security agents from a variety of federal prisons.
The personnel listed have tactical experience in dealing with prison disturbances. They are listed as hailing from SORT, BOPs Special Operations Response Teams, or DCT, its Disturbance Control Teams. Many of the prisons where the listed officers work have active COVID-19 cases, raising the prospect of a coronavirus spread off of any deployment.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/william-barr-preps-prison-guards-to-head-to-dc-for-election-unrest
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