{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://norton.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/norton-says-obama-s-announcement-of-body-mounted-cameras-and-nationwide", "Norton Says Obamas Announcement of Body-Mounted Cameras and Nationwide Nonviolent Demonstrations Begin Period to Show Michael Brown Did Not Die in Vain", "2014-12-02", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "(Norton delivers a speech on the House floor about the Michael Brown tragedy - 12/1/14)\n  \n\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that President Barack Obama\u2019s announcement yesterday begins reforms of local law enforcement that are a down payment on the plea of Michael Brown\u2019s father that his son should not die in vain.\u00a0 The President announced a three-year funding program to provide local police departments up to 50,000 body-mounted cameras.\u00a0 He also said that a forthcoming Executive Order (EO) will ensure that military surplus made available to local law enforcement through the 1033 program has a legitimate civilian law enforcement purpose, accompanied by strict training requirements made more transparent to the public.\u00a0 Norton said the Michael Brown tragedy cries out for an EO.\u00a0\u00a0 In October, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department launched a six-month pilot program using body-mounted, point-of-view cameras.\u00a0 Norton said that although the D.C. pilot program was arranged well before the Ferguson incident, she is pleased that D.C. law enforcement is well on its way to becoming an accountable and transparent 21st-century police force.\u00a0 In 2008, the Metropolitan Police Department received 500 AR-15 rifles through the 1033 program.\nLast evening, Norton went on the House floor to ask that the big picture that emerged from the killing of Michael Brown not be lost in the disappointment over the failure to indict Officer Darren Wilson.\u00a0 Norton said, \u201cThe people in the streets are there to see that Michael Brown did not die in vain; that probable cause, once again, becomes color blind, to see that, when a young Black man goes into the street, he is not consistently and constantly profiled because of the color of his skin.\u201d Norton continued, \u201cThe provocative stops in the street \u2013 Eric Holder, a former U.S. Attorney, now the Attorney General of the United States, has been stopped in the streets of the nation\u2019s capital.\u00a0 When my son goes into the streets, he is Michael Brown.\u00a0 We want an America that when he goes into the street, he is like everybody else until he does something wrong and there is probable cause to show it.\u201d\nNorton mentioned Obama\u2019s $75 million request for funding of body-mounted cameras as an indication that Brown\u2019s death can produce action that has national effects on the issue of profiling that has been seething below the surface with no outlet for remedial action.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://norton.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/norton-says-obama-s-announcement-of-body-mounted-cameras-and-nationwide"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.230801947414875, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}