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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoJ using prison riot control teams as unmarked personnel in Washington DC
Who Are They? Unmarked Security Forces in DC Spark Fear
The presence of unmarked federal law enforcement officers, dressed in paramilitary uniforms and wearing no identifying insignia, quickly spread among protesters marching through Washington, D.C.s streets on Tuesday and Wednesday, causing concerned protesters and officials to ask: Who are they?
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Two such clad security members in Washington on Tuesday night identified themselves to Defense One as part of a specialized emergency response force run by the Bureau of Prisons part of the Justice Department to help maintain security at correctional facilities. They and others are part of whats known as the bureaus Special Operations Response Teams, or SORTs. NPR reported on Monday that Attorney General Bill Barr had ordered BOP to send its specialized riot response teams to assist with the local D.C. law enforcement with the civil unrest that has engulfed downtown Washington this week.
On Wednesday, protesters, former national security officials, and legal analysts raised alarms about the refusal of these units to identify their specific agency, and the legal authority under which they are operating. Some critics compared the units to little green men a reference to the unmarked Russian soldiers who appeared in Crimea, Ukraine, prior to its 2014 annexation by the Russian Federation and were compared to the classic plastic toy soldiers. A few of the personnel in Washington on Tuesday wore patches identifying them as BOP or SORTs, but many did not.
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Legal analysts have raised questions about what statute authorizes BOPs use in civil law enforcement efforts. Those nitty-gritty rules dictate what kind of authority the units have like the power to arrest citizens, for example. That, in turn, dictates how civilians can seek redress for any abuses of power.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/06/who-are-they-unmarked-security-forces-dc-spark-fear/165892/
The presence of unmarked federal law enforcement officers, dressed in paramilitary uniforms and wearing no identifying insignia, quickly spread among protesters marching through Washington, D.C.s streets on Tuesday and Wednesday, causing concerned protesters and officials to ask: Who are they?
...
Two such clad security members in Washington on Tuesday night identified themselves to Defense One as part of a specialized emergency response force run by the Bureau of Prisons part of the Justice Department to help maintain security at correctional facilities. They and others are part of whats known as the bureaus Special Operations Response Teams, or SORTs. NPR reported on Monday that Attorney General Bill Barr had ordered BOP to send its specialized riot response teams to assist with the local D.C. law enforcement with the civil unrest that has engulfed downtown Washington this week.
On Wednesday, protesters, former national security officials, and legal analysts raised alarms about the refusal of these units to identify their specific agency, and the legal authority under which they are operating. Some critics compared the units to little green men a reference to the unmarked Russian soldiers who appeared in Crimea, Ukraine, prior to its 2014 annexation by the Russian Federation and were compared to the classic plastic toy soldiers. A few of the personnel in Washington on Tuesday wore patches identifying them as BOP or SORTs, but many did not.
...
Legal analysts have raised questions about what statute authorizes BOPs use in civil law enforcement efforts. Those nitty-gritty rules dictate what kind of authority the units have like the power to arrest citizens, for example. That, in turn, dictates how civilians can seek redress for any abuses of power.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/06/who-are-they-unmarked-security-forces-dc-spark-fear/165892/
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DoJ using prison riot control teams as unmarked personnel in Washington DC (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2020
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obamanut2012
(26,050 posts)1. What happens when MAGATs dress exactly like them
And run around terrorizing citizens under the color of law? What then?
2naSalit
(86,502 posts)3. ++++++++++++++++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!
crickets
(25,959 posts)7. That scenario doesn't look much different from what is actually happening. nt
lindysalsagal
(20,638 posts)2. ...
/revision/latest?cb=20180713022330
2naSalit
(86,502 posts)4. Some context, sil vous plait?
lindysalsagal
(20,638 posts)5. Handmaid's Tale
First was the civil war. Then military takeover. Then establishment of the biblical country gilead where civil rights are extinguished...
Thanks, have not read the book nor viewed any screen productions, never would have "got it".
crickets
(25,959 posts)8. "Unmarked Security Forces in DC Spark Fear"
Fear? No. Anger and disgust. Bill Barr has created his own private army in order to bypass Constitutional protections and to prop up trump's autocratic delusions. This must not be allowed to stand unchallenged.