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Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant-General Russel Honoré is a man known for bootstrapping himself up from humble beginnings into the highest echelons of the world’s most powerful fighting force while overcoming the racial chasms that divided his country.
Now the 73-year-old with a salty vocabulary is back, entrusted with figuring out how to better safeguard a superpower’s seat of democracy. As he goes about trying to improve security inside Washington after the Jan. 6 riot, he has not been mincing words.
Mayor Cantrell touted the new system as a major improvement over what her predecessor put in place. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 6:36 PM CST January 18, 2021 Updated: 10:53 PM CST January 18, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Echoing more controversial comments made exactly 15 years ago in the infamous Chocolate City Speech by former Mayor Ray Nagin, Mayor LaToya Cantrell seized on the symbolism of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to announce new efforts to expand access to public contracts for disadvantaged businesses.
“This community remains an Afrocentric community,” Cantrell said, offering her words of encouragement in a far less polarizing context than when Nagin promised on Martin Luther King Day 2006 that a New Orleans emerging from Hurricane Katrina’s devastation “will be chocolate at the end of the day.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré will lead an immediate review of the security during the Capitol attack.
On January 6, pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths.
Honoré is known for leading the task force that was in charge of the US military response to Hurricane Katrina.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to lead an immediate review of the security of the US Capitol Complex after armed pro-Trump insurrections ransacked it last week. To protect our Democracy, we must now subject the security of the U.S. Capitol Complex to rigorous scrutiny, Pelosi said in a statement. To that end, I have asked Lt. General Russel Honoré (Ret.), a respected leader with experience dealing with crises, to lead an immediate review of the Capitol s security infrastructure, interagency processes and procedures, and command and contr