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Report: Spy plane monitored protest where Guard head lives in Sacramento suburb

Authorities have not explained how and why that neighborhood was chosen when other cities that had seen property destruction and street clashes were not.
Credit: AP
FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, vehicles for the District of Columbia National Guard are seen outside the D.C. Armory in Washington. A peaceful protest in a sleepy suburb that's home to the head of the California National Guard was among four demonstrations monitored by National Guard spy planes. That's according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. The four spy planes took to the skies over cities in June to monitor protests following the killing of George Floyd. Three watched demonstrations in Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. But the target of the fourth was the Sacramento, Calif., suburb of El Dorado Hills. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A peaceful protest in a sleepy suburb that's home to the head of the California National Guard was among four demonstrations monitored by National Guard spy planes. That's according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. 

The four planes took to the skies over cities in June to monitor protests following the killing of George Floyd. 

Three watched demonstrations in Minneapolis, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. But the target of the fourth was the Sacramento, California, suburb of El Dorado Hills. 

Authorities have not explained how and why that neighborhood was chosen when other cities that had seen property destruction and street clashes were not.

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