Criminal Law
Officer Who Arrested GA State Representative Says the Capitol Riot Was ‘In the Back of My Mind’
WASHINGTON — A Georgia State Patrol officer who arrested Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon last week when she protested the governor’s signing of a law that restricts voting said the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was “in the back of my mind” during the incident.
Lt. G.D. Langford detailed in a 13-page incident report obtained by NBC News how he repeatedly asked Cannon, a Black female lawmaker, to stop knocking on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s office door where he was signing the law, but she continued to do so. He said that he “noticed the other protestors began to get louder as she was refusing to follow commands.”
