Posted on 07/22/2020 5:05:53 PM PDT by CedarDave
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr announced that 35 federal agents and additional resources will be coming to Albuquerque as part of the expansion of Operation Legend in a handful of cities across the United States.
At a news conference in the White House on Wednesday, President Trump said the influx will be in cities where the leadership wants to “defund, defame or abolish” police.
“Under Operation Legend we will soon send fed law enforcement to other cities that need help,” Trump said. “Other cities need help, they need it badly. They should call, they should want it. They’re too proud or they’re too political to do that. One of them is Albuquerque, New Mexico.”
In advance of the announcement of Operation Legend coming to Albuquerque, city and state leaders denounced the plan.
The governor and attorney general said they will actively monitor the operation for any civil rights violations and urge anyone who is impacted to contact their offices.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said if the Trump administration really wants to assist local law enforcement — with community policing activities and data-driven crime-fighting initiatives — it would welcome the conversation.
“If the Trump administration wishes to antagonize New Mexicans and Americans with authoritarian, unnecessary and unaccountable military-style ‘crackdowns,’ they have no business whatsoever in New Mexico,” Lujan Grisham wrote in a statement. “An exercise meant only to escalate tension in New Mexico communities would be flatly unacceptable.”
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always worried about the "civil rights" of the bad guys and never about the civil rights of the innocents the bad guys are hurting.
I agree.
They’ll be OK. Probably hiding out in the vacuum cleaner guy’s secret basement until it’s over.
Now THAT is amazing. But then, I haven’t been there in 30 years, so maybe things have changed a bit.
‘s all good, man.
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