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Shelley Moore Capito: “They're not actually aggressively going out and fighting…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Provides Update on West Virginia National Guardsmen

Published | Video Starts at 01:45

And I think as I've been walking around D.C. since the deployment of the Guard, I've stopped and talked to many from Louisiana, from West Virginia to find out how, how's it been going? You know, they basically are just on patrol to watch. They're not actually aggressively going out and fighting crime in the way they're letting the metropolitan police have more time and more manpower. to be able to do that. And, and so it's, it' is such a tragedy. But it's our capital city. We want it to be safe. (01:45–01:57)

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Asserts that the National Guard's presence allows local police more resources to fight crime.

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