Gen. Milley: Some soldiers mobilized to DC amid Black Lives Matter protests were issued bayonets

Gen. Milley stopped short of agreeing to bar bayonet usage moving forward, saying he could not commit that 'U.S. troops will never deploy bayonets in support of civil authorities responding to domestic civil unrest.'

WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said that some soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C. to possibly assist in thwartingMembers of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and the 3rd U.S.

Milley said that the order to mobilize the service members came from Army Maj. Gen. Omar Jones, who serves as commander of the military district of Washington. The AP has also reported an unclassified military document detailing some of the soldiers were not trained in riot response, and commanders had planned to train them within 96 hours of arriving at the nation's capital.

Krishnamoorthi and Lieu said in a statement, “While we are grateful for General Milley’s responses to our questions concerning the arming of troops with bayonets for potential deployment against protesters, we were disappointed he was not willing to commit to banning the practice."

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