On Tuesday evening, the Pentagon confirmed that approximately 1,600 active-duty troops were flown into the D.C. area, as the nation braced for another day of protests over the death of George Floyd.
Hours after more than a thousand active-duty Army units arrived in the Washington, D.C. area to help local law enforcement with protest response efforts, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Wednesday he was going to send them home, only to then change his mind later in the day.
The law that would allow President Donald Trump to send the active-duty military to respond to civil unrest in cities across the country. On Tuesday evening, the Pentagon confirmed that approximately 1,600 active-duty troops from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York were flown into the Washington D.C. area, as the nation braced for another day of protests over the death of George Floyd.
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