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President Donald Trump announced plans on Wednesday to surge federal law enforcement units to Chicago and Albuquerque, the latest instance of domestic intervention by the federal government, over the objections of state and local leaders, in cities that have recently been rocked by unrest and violence.
The initiative, dubbed “Operation Legend” in memory of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed last month in Kansas City, Mo., will send “hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers” from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security to both cities “ to help drive down violent crime,” Trump said from the White House.
Around 200 federal agents have already been deployed to Kansas City, Attorney General William Barr said, adding that a “comparable number of agents” would be sent to Chicago to “augment” the city’s existing task forces. The Justice Department will send an additional 35 agents to Albuquerque, he said.
Trump also used the occasion to rebuke the Democratic leaders of cities such as Minneapolis, Philadelphia and New York, where he linked a recent spike in violent crime to calls for drastic police reforms, including pushes to defund police departments and redirect more money toward social services.
He cast the decision as a reluctant choice, though he has threatened to intervene in America’s largest cities since mass protests over systemic racism and police violence first broke out in Minneapolis at the end of May.
“Frankly, we have no choice but to get involved,” he said.
“We must remember that the job of policing the neighborhood falls on the shoulders of local elected leadership,” Trump said on Wednesday, joined by the loved ones of victims of gun violence. “Never forget that. When they abdicate their duty, the results are catastrophic.”
“Americans must hold their city leaders accountable,” he went on, a demand he said entails insisting “that community officials fully support, fully back and fully fund their local police departments.”
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While the Democrats are tearing this country apart by supporting mobs of violent anarchists the President is these cities the Democrats have abandoned.
The initiative, dubbed “Operation Legend” in memory of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed last month in Kansas City, Mo., will send “hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers” from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security to both cities “ to help drive down violent crime,” Trump said from the White House.
Around 200 federal agents have already been deployed to Kansas City, Attorney General William Barr said, adding that a “comparable number of agents” would be sent to Chicago to “augment” the city’s existing task forces. The Justice Department will send an additional 35 agents to Albuquerque, he said.
Trump also used the occasion to rebuke the Democratic leaders of cities such as Minneapolis, Philadelphia and New York, where he linked a recent spike in violent crime to calls for drastic police reforms, including pushes to defund police departments and redirect more money toward social services.
He cast the decision as a reluctant choice, though he has threatened to intervene in America’s largest cities since mass protests over systemic racism and police violence first broke out in Minneapolis at the end of May.
“Frankly, we have no choice but to get involved,” he said.
“We must remember that the job of policing the neighborhood falls on the shoulders of local elected leadership,” Trump said on Wednesday, joined by the loved ones of victims of gun violence. “Never forget that. When they abdicate their duty, the results are catastrophic.”
“Americans must hold their city leaders accountable,” he went on, a demand he said entails insisting “that community officials fully support, fully back and fully fund their local police departments.”
Trump announces plan to send federal law enforcement to Chicago, Albuquerque
The president says the initiative is necessary to counter violent crime, but local leaders say it’s “unacceptable” and political.
www.politico.com
While the Democrats are tearing this country apart by supporting mobs of violent anarchists the President is these cities the Democrats have abandoned.
