William Banks, Professor of Law Emeritus in the College of Law, was interviewed for the NBC News piece “Who decides when there are helicopters? Experts weigh in on National Guard monitoring protests.” Banks, an expert on emergency and war powers, says that the use of the National Guard during Black Lives Matter protests demonstrated different interactions between civilians and the military than how they ordinarily work with one another. Banks fears that the military’s new methods of handling protestors, including surveillance technologies, show that “the civilian-military relationship, which is critical to the success of our society, has broken down.”