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March 16, 2021

Police Begin Scaling Back Massive Security Perimeter Around U.S. Capitol
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Police have begun scaling back a massive security perimeter on Capitol
Hill, including metal fences topped with razor wire. Washington, D.C.'s
nonvoting delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, has proposed
legislation that would ban permanent fencing around the Capitol. Last
month, Norton tweeted, "There are many state-of-the-art options that
wouldn't needlessly wall off the Capitol complex like a fortress that
needs to be protected from the people we represent."


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