WASHINGTON — A new Netflix documentary about Vanessa Guillén — the Army specialist who went missing and was found slain at Fort Hood in 2020 — chronicles her...
Several lawmakers who led the fight for new legislation on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., will be featured in the documentary as well.
“This was not one of those cases the military could sweep under the rug,” Speier can be heard saying in the trailer for the film.. Her body was found dismembered two months later. In the months before her death, her family said, Guillén was acting differently, and when pressed, said she was being harassed at work but didn’t feel comfortable coming forward.
The hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillén became a rallying cry on Twitter, akin to the #MeTooMovement, where soldiers and veterans across the country shared their stories about harassment and assault they experienced during their service. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, including Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, and Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, began to introduce and push for legislative reforms to address some of the problems Guillén’s death revealed.
Guillén’s family urged lawmakers to pass the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act to prevent what happened to Guillén from happening again. In December of last year, President Joe Biden signed some of it into law as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense spending bill.
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