FROM WASHINGTON EXAMINER: 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. In a press release on Wednesday, Beyer said:
“Every day Washingtonians are confronted with new outrages from Trump’s unwanted and unjustified occupation of D.C., including arrests using excessive force that put people in unnecessary danger.”
“Many of these encounters have been captured on video taken by bystanders or journalists, and I cannot help but wonder what we are not seeing because it is not caught on video,” he continued. “I have the same concern with ICE raids in Northern Virginia, which like the federal escalation in DC, are carried out by masked agents in unmarked vehicles who give no justification for their actions.”
It's also true of ICE raids in Northern Virginia carried out by masked agents in unmarked vehicles who give no justification for their actions.
The Administration’s use of such draconian tactics is designed to stoke fear and intimidate law-abiding people who did nothing wrong.
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 20, 2025
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