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D.C. National Guard commander says Pentagon delayed deployment of troops to protect US Capitol on January 6
In the second joint hearing held by the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees on the January 6 siege of the US Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists, D.C. National Guard Commander William Walker confirmed that senior leadership at the Department of Defense refused for hours to approve urgent requests from Walker and D.C. police to deploy National Guard troops to protect Congress from the mob.
In his opening statement, Walker said he asked Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy for approval to deploy National Guard troops at 1:49 p.m., but was not given the go-ahead until 5:08 p.m. Walker testified that the three hour and 19 minute delay left him “stunned and frustrated.”
House passes expansive police reform bill named in honor of George Floyd
The bill, passed along mostly party lines, would ban chokeholds, end racial and religious profiling, establish a national database to track police misconduct and prohibit certain no-knock warrants.
By Felicia Sonmez and Colby ItkowitzThe Washington Post
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WASHINGTON – The House on Wednesday passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, an expansive police reform measure named for the 46-year-old Black man who died last Memorial Day after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck for more than eight minutes.
The bill passed 220-212 along mostly party lines with two Democrats, including Jared Golden of Maine, voting against it and one Republican voting for it. Democrat Chellie Pingree of Maine voted in favor.