Trump admin to send federal troops to Memphis, St. Louis

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: UPI

AUG. 7, 2020 / 12:49 AM

By Darryl Coote



U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Thursday that federal law enforcement agents will be sent to Memphis and St. Louis amid a spike in violent crime in the two cities. Pool Photo by Chip Somodevilla/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The Trump administration announced federal law enforcement officers will be sent to Memphis and St. Louis to stamp out violent crime in the cities.

The Justice Department announced Thursday the expansion of Operation Legend that began in early July with the deployment of federal troops to Kansas City, Mo., following the death of LeGend Taliferro, 4, who was fatally shot while sleeping in the early morning of June 29.

In July, Federal troops were also sent to Chicago, Albuquerque, Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee under the operation.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/08/07/Trump-admin-to-send-federal-troops-to-Memphis-St-Louis/7211596772279/?ur3=1

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[sakabatou]

1. Barr's brown shirts.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Not for nuthin', but ...

... when are these GOP marketing geniuses going to realize that this whole 'law and order prezident' shtick isn't working?

[jorgevlorgan]

3. He will die in prison

...if we have anything to do with it

[Garion_55]

4. i guess they want the videos of teargassing grandmas to start up again

they think that hitting protesters with rubber bullets helps them somehow.

[Roy Rolling]

5. "Stamp Out Violent Crime"

More firepower and violence. That’ll learn ‘em.

[brewens]

6. I'm hearing that some of those Trump troopers were speaking a foreign language; possibly

Russian! Or maybe I just made that up. It couldn't hurt to get that rumor going around could it?

[Judi Lynn]

8. Some of them were also wearing blue United Nations helmets! Black helicopters, too. n/t

[Grokenstein]

7. When will it be time to march on D.C. to root out the mobsters?

[applegrove]

9. LOCKING

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