by Peter Penn
Journalist Alejandro Alvarez of WTOP news in Washington D.C. has been covering the protests in our nation’s capitol. On June 3, he noticed that many of the security officers had no visible badges, insignias or name tags on their uniforms and posted photos of this on his Twitter account.
Alvarez later posted photos of a few insignias that were seen, that indicate some of these security officers were Federal Prison Officers from Texas. The insignias included Three Rivers, and FCC Beaumont.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), whose Director is Michael Carvajal, is an agency under the Department of Justice and is responsible for the care, custody, and control of incarcerated individuals. The National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 transferred responsibility for adult felons convicted of violating District of Columbia laws to the Bureau.
According to the Department of Justice, headed by Attorney General William Barr, one of the major functions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is:
Counterterrorism
* Provide for public safety and security by focusing on preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist activities.
Are Americans exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble considered felons or terrorists?
Who ordered these armed, uniformed officers to remove their identifying insignias, badges and name tags? And, why? How could there be any accountability for the actions of these armed, uniformed officers?
Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has done a couple of commentaries on this issue, and you can watch them HERE and HERE. And see what Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of D.C., said about this HERE.
It seems that many people have also been wondering if any of the unidentified, armed officers could have been private military contractors.
Private military contractors were boots on the ground in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In an article by James Ridgeway in Mother Jones, is stated “The Blackwater operators described their mission in New Orleans as ‘securing neighborhoods,’ as if they were talking about Sadr City. When National Guard troops descended on the city, the Army Times described their role as fighting ‘the insurgency in the city.’ Brigadier Gen. Gary Jones, who commanded the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force, told the paper, ‘This place is going to look like Little Somalia. We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.’”
Recently, Defense Secretary Mark Esper described U.S. cities as a “battlespace” in a White House call with governors.
The U.S. is NOT a “battlespace” and there should NOT be unidentified, armed officers on our streets.
The PPJ Gazette 
Jun 09, 2020 @ 22:48:15
LAPD shot this homeless man, who was not taking part in a nearby protest, directly with rubber bullets. Thiis is a teaching moment for those of you who may not know three things about rubber bullets. 1. They are rarely rubber and are often bullets coated in a rubber like substance. Rubber coated bullets is a more appropriate name. 2. They are not non-lethal. They are less lethal. 3. The proper use of these projectiles is to shoot the pavement in front of the target to reduce the impact and so they hit only the lower body. I also included this quote on rubber bullets. They should only be used on violent crowds and never as “crowd control” or herding of non-violent protestors. In my opinion any use on someone who is not actively threatening and capable of serious injury to the police should be treated as manslaughter or attempted ms and the officers should be charged.
“They are expected to produce contusions, abrasions, and hematomas. However, they may cause bone fractures, injuries to internal organs, or death. In a study of injuries in 90 patients injured by rubber bullets, 1 died, 17 suffered permanent disabilities or deformities and 41 required hospital treatment after being fired upon with rubber bullets.[6] A review of studies covering 1,984 people injured by “kinetic impact projectiles” found that 53 died and 300 were permanently disabled.”
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Jun 09, 2020 @ 12:12:38
Reblogged this on NoFakeNews.net and commented:
This story is an alarming development that all Americans should take notice of and continue to monitor in the future. I find it hard to believe that American servicemen and women would be willing to plunge vaccines into the arms of US citizens. Still, private government contractors or foreign military personnel might be a different story—no need to panic about it or even blow it up out of proportion at this time.
The government likely wanted to distance itself from a sticky situation stemming from altercations taking place between demonstrators and US military people. The government undoubtedly contracted the work out to private companies to distance themselves from potential problems of this nature.
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