“Hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1, the lead military police officer in the Department of asked if the D.C. National Guard had a kind of military heat ray that might be deployed against demonstrators in the nation’s capital,” NPR reports.
The Washington Post reports federal officials “began to stockpile ammunition and seek devices that could emit deafening sounds and make anyone within range feel like their skin is on fire.”
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