National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
A retired U.S. Army captain and Iraq War veteran is taking legal action after National Guard troops approached her outside her Washington, D.C. home, pushed her to the ground and detained her in an aggressive, caught-on-camera confrontation.
Anna King, who received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for her service, was cornered on her front porch by three National Guard troops on the evening of May 8.
“Get away from me right now,” King can be heard telling the guards in footage taken on a Ring security camera. “You have absolutely no authority to detain me.”
Footage shared by the ACLU of the District of Columbia shows King trying to go inside her home as the men, three Idaho National Guard members, grab King and force her to the ground as she screams for them to get off her.
It’s also how most countries orchestrate large cadres of “internal security” troops, including (but very much not limited to) Russia (MVD and OMON), France (Gendarmerie riot units), China (PAP), Germany (Bereitschaftspolizei), and so on.
TL;DR: suppression forces tend to be more effective if nobody in the suppression force knows or has any connection to the citizens being suppressed.
Thats not an endorsement or expression of support for suppression forces, to be clear.