Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), along with a handful of House Democrats, will introduce two bills requiring federal officers to use body and dashboard cameras on marked vehicles and terminate President Donald Trump‘s federalization of the Washington, D.C., police force.
The legislation will include Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Park Police among those who must use cameras. This comes after President Donald Trump placed the district’s Metropolitan Police Department “under direct federal control” and deployed National Guard troops in the capital.
Norton will be joined by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), House Oversight ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in the effort to terminate Trump’s federalization. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) will join Norton’s effort to require body
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