NEW: D.C. Military confirmed to NPR that hours before federal police cleared peaceful protesters near the White House in June, the district's top military policeman sought information about a 'heat ray' system that might be deployed against demonstrators.
Military police hold a line near the White House on June 1 as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality in Washington, D.C.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Col. Robert Phillips, a spokesperson for the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region, or JFHQ-NCR, said the inquiry was made"as a matter of due diligence and prudent military planning." from Maj. Adam DeMarco of the D.C. National Guard, who revealed he had been copied on an email from the provost marshal of Joint Force Headquarters. The email said the top military police officer in D.C. was looking for two things: a Long Range Acoustic Device, a kind of sound cannon known as an LRAD, and a device called the Active Denial System, or ADS.
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