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We re like servants adding, i would rather have to deal with people overdosing on drugs than deal with members staff. according to one law enforcement source, more are expected soon. officers say thinning ranks have left some of them on the job without days off. one is working more than two weeks straight. they try to disrupt our democracy. they failed. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell s words convinced another officer who spoke to cnn that congress was committed to finding the truth about the riot. i got fooled the officer said. some officials hoped a january 6 commission will bring about meaningful change, an opportunity they now worry will be missed. we are political pawns, an officer said. now the people we are sworn to protect and protect on the sixth don t want to fund us or figure out what really happened that ....
jefferson davis isn t alone in his need for more troops. davis and lincoln both institute drafts to fill their thinning ranks. but as draft notices go out, southerners desert, while northerners revolt, turning new york city into a war zone. [ all shouting ] i ain t going to war for no negro. not for no negro, we re not. you re the cause of all of our trouble! the draft riots was as much a class revolt as it was a race revolt. because of the large number of free blacks living in new york, black men and women became symbols of the anger and the frustration of the draft. in the wake of the emancipati proclation, many white norther resent being forced into a war over slavery, and their anger ....
jefferson davis isn t alone in his need for more troops. davis and lincoln both institute drafts to fill their thinning ranks. but as draft notices go out, southerners desert, while northerners revolt, turning new york city into a war zone. [ all shouting ] i ain t going to war for no negro. not for no negro, we re not. you re the cause of all of our trouble! the draft riots was as much a class revolt as it was a race revolt. because of the large number of free blacks living in new york, black men and women became symbols of the anger and the frustration of the draft. in the wake of the emancipation proclamation, many white northerners resent being forced into a war over slavery, and their anger ....