Things are about to get a whole lot worse.
feds to more US cities
President Donald Trump has announced the deployment of ‘hundreds’ of federal law enforcement officers to Chicago as part of a federal crackdown on violent crime in the US, pledging to “never” defund the police.
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals and other federal agencies will be sending officers to Chicago, the president announced, noting that more than 400 people have been killed in the city just this year, and over a thousand injured in shootings.
“We will not stand by and watch it happen,” Trump said.
Americans of all races and in all postal codes deserve to live in safety and "no mother should ever have to cradle her dead child in her arms simply because politicians refused to do what is necessary to secure their neighborhood and secure their city," he added.
Trump also pledged not only to “never defund the police,” but to hire “more great police” in order to “make law enforcement stronger.”
“What cities are doing is absolute insanity,” Trump continued, slamming politicians for seeking to cut law enforcement budgets while pushing “sanctuary city” policies.
Operation Legend’ is a Department of Justice undertaking named after LeGend Taliferro, a 4-year-old boy murdered earlier this month when someone shot up his house in Kansas City, Missouri. His family was in attendance at the White House event on Wednesday.
The operation initially focused on Kansas City, but has since been expanded to Chicago, Illinois and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Attorney General William Barr has offered rewards for information leading to the arrest of Taliferro’s killer, as well as those of other children murdered in recent shootings.
Trump blamed Democratic politicians' "effort[s] to shut down police in their own communities" for creating "a shocking explosion of shootings, killing, violence, murders” that "shocks the conscience of our nation."
Violent crime has risen sharply over the last two months across major US cities, as protesters outraged by the killing of George Floyd, an African-American man, in Minnesota, demanded to “defund the police” in response.
The previous rollout of Department of Homeland Security personnel in Portland horrified locals, who shared videos of federal agents “kidnapping” protesters into unmarked vans and likened the feds’ tactics to a fascist dictatorship. DHS Secretary Chad Wolf didn’t help his case by describing how the agency had to “go out and proactively arrest individuals” due to a lack of support from local law enforcement.
https://www.rt.com/usa/495549-trump-federal-agents-us-cities/
https://www.rt.com/usa/495456-portland-proactive-arrests-dhs/
After numerous reports and lawsuits in Portland regarding un-badged and un-uniformed federal officers arresting, beating, and detaining people in unmarked vehicles, the Trump administration’s response is that they’re going to do it even more, and in more cities. Saying that his federal agents are doing a “fantastic job,” Trump has suggested that he will also deploy agents in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and Milwaukee to do the same.
In one of those cities, the city prosecutor has already preemptively warned Trump’s police forces what he will do if they bring the same tactics to Philadelphia:
“My dad volunteered and served in World War II to fight fascism, like most of my uncles, so we would not have an American president brutalizing and kidnapping Americans for exercising their constitutional rights and trying to make America a better place, which is what patriots do,” said Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in a statement. “Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office.”
Your headline is misleading, Robin. FBI, DHS & USMarshalls are federal police not "troops" (implies military).
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