Ocasio-Cortez to present bill requiring federal officials to identify themselves

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezTrump threatens to double in Portland in other major cities. House Seeks Ways to Honor John Lewis House to Bring Controversial Homeland Security Bill MORE (DN.Y.) and Delegate of the District of Columbia Eleanor Holmes NortonEleanor Holmes Norton Democrats ready to await major police reform Texas Democrat proposes legislation requiring masks at Jackson federal facility, Mississippi votes to remove statue of Andrew Jackson from City Hall MORE (D) present a bill that would require all federal law enforcement officials to clearly identify themselves.

The bill would compel all officers on duty to clearly display their agency’s name, their own last name, and their identification number and create a new oversight process within the Justice Department that would require recurring audits by their inspector general. The Nation reported.

While the topic has dominated the news in the past few days since the Department of Homeland Security Personnel, many of them in unidentified vehicles, descended on Portland, Oregon, Ocasio-Cortez’s office told the publication that the legislation had been in process before dispatch.

“Many lawyers ask the same question: where is the transparency? Unidentified internal security forces are detaining US citizens, and accounts allege that these detention processes are more similar to deliveries abroad than traditional arrests, “Irvin McCullough, deputy director of legislation for the Project, told The Nation Government responsibility, after seeing the bill.

“Citizens deserve to know who arrests them, or at least what entity, to report the abuses they suffer or witness,” he added.

“Federal law enforcement officers should have their identifying information displayed while on duty,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This is basic.”

Federal law enforcement officials must display your identifying information while on duty.

This is basic. @ EleanorNorton and I have introduced legislation to make it law: https: //t.co/xcL1j15STo

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 20, 2020

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad WolfChad WolfTrump threatens to duplicate Portland in other major cities. Fox Neapolitan destroys Trump’s “unconstitutional” crackdown in Portland: “Simply wrong” Acting DHS Secretary: I don’t need Portland “invitation” to deploy officers MORE has said that approval from local officials is not required to launch such operations, and President TrumpDonald John TrumpDHS expands staff authority to collect information on people who threaten monuments: Republican report points to Trump’s payroll tax cut on Republican coronavirus bill, for now Trump threatens to duplicate Portland in other major cities PLUS Monday suggested similar implementations in progress for other major cities.

The presence of the officers has also been criticized by the senator. Rand paulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulTrump threatens to double down on Portland in other major cities. Fox’s Neapolitan rips Trump’s “unconstitutional” crackdown in Portland: “Simply wrong” Rand Paul: “There is no place” for the feds “to surround people at will” in Portland MORE (R-Ky.), Who tweeted Monday that “local police can and should handle these situations in our cities, but there is no place for unidentified federal troops or federal agents to detain people at will.”