{"id":105241,"date":"2020-09-19T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105241"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:40:57","slug":"report-feds-considered-using-heat-ray-on-dc-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105241","title":{"rendered":"Report: Feds considered using \u2018heat ray\u2019 on DC protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"
Active denial system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m not sure why this requires a “whistleblower” nor why it surprises people. I’ve been around when plans are made for these events. Nothing is off the table. Lots of ideas are spit-balled and dismissed. Better to bring an idea up and have it shot down than to have never considered an available option.<\/p>\n

Thus we have people surprised and aghast that non-lethal crowd control devices would be used against a violent crowd.<\/p>\n

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A military whistleblower says federal officials sought some unusual crowd control devices \u2014 including one that\u2019s been called a \u201cheat ray\u201d \u2014 to deal with protesters outside the White House on the June day that law enforcement forcibly cleared Lafayette Square.<\/p>\n

In written responses to questions from a House committee,\u00a0National Guard Maj. Adam DeMarco\u00a0said the Defense Department\u2019s lead military police officer for the National Capital Region sent an email asking if the D.C. National Guard possessed a long-range acoustic device \u2014 used to transmit loud noises \u2014 or an \u201cActive Denial System,\u201d the so-called heat ray.<\/p>\n

DeMarco said he responded that the Guard was not in possession of either device.\u00a0National Public Radio\u00a0and\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0first reported DeMarco\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The AP article says;<\/p>\n

Use of either the acoustic device or the Active Denial System would have been a significant escalation of crowd control for the Guard members, particularly since the defense officials ordered that the Guard troops not be armed when they went into D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure how the acoustic device (which is essentially a very powerful and directed megaphone) or the active denial system would be “significant escalation.” This was the crowd that injured 50 cops you’ll recall. In a letter to Congress, Interior Secretary Bernhardt wrote that that the crowd had authorities in a “state of siege.”<\/p>\n

“The incidents are numerous and include USPP [US Park Police] officers having their police cars vandalized; being subject to bombardment by lighted flares; Molotov cocktails, rocks, bricks, bottles and other projectiles; and physical assault so violent that to date over 50 area law enforcement officers have been injured to some degree,\u201d Bernhardt wrote, adding that one officer required emergency surgery.<\/p>\n

It would seem to me that using non-lethal devices to disperse the crowd would be a significant\u00a0deescalation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for the tip on the story.<\/p>\n

Source;\u00a0Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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