District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) has introduced legislation that would require members of the armed forces, including the National Guard, deployed in the District of Columbia at the president’s direction to wear body cameras similar to those used by the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

Under the bill, all active-duty forces sent to the nation’s capital in response to crime or civil disturbances would be subject to a body-worn camera program modeled after MPD’s system, which stores video for defined periods based on the type of incident and provides public access.

“The Trump administration has deployed more than 2,000 troops to D.C. who are wholly unaccountable to D.C. residents. Even the D.C. National Guard troops are under the president’s control and do no

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