‘We’re proud to be here’: 40 Meck County deputies sent to DC to help with inauguration security
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Dozens of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers and Mecklenburg County deputies will be at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration to help with security after the attack on the Capitol earlier this month.
Law enforcement from all over the country have been called to Washington D.C. That includes more than 25,000 National Guard Troops -- 950 of them from the Carolinas.
Channel 9 learned that 40 county deputies left Monday morning to head for the Capitol. Each one signed up for the job before the attack on the Capitol.