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More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested in Operation Legend, AG Barr announces
Fox News ^ | August 19 2020 | Danielle Wallace

Posted on 08/19/2020 11:23:46 AM PDT by knighthawk

At least 207 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday.

Nearly 400 firearms have been seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Barr launched Operation Legend on July 8 as “a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime,” the DOJ said in a release.

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KEYWORDS: barr; operationlegend

1 posted on 08/19/2020 11:23:46 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Are these riot arrests?


2 posted on 08/19/2020 11:26:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: knighthawk

Squirrel. Look at ANYTHING but the coup conspirators who are getting off scott-free.


3 posted on 08/19/2020 11:41:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: knighthawk

That many should have been arrested for one night in Portland

Does anyone still have delusions that Barr and his DOJ will push anything meaningful against the coup plotters as well as Antifa and BLM organizers?


4 posted on 08/19/2020 12:20:03 PM PDT by Swirl
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To: knighthawk

1200 skaters.


5 posted on 08/19/2020 12:26:56 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Swirl

So who gets to charge them? Only a DA in those cities? Or can they be charged federally?


6 posted on 08/19/2020 12:36:51 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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why not federally: terrorism, racketeering, conspiracy, damage to federal property .....


7 posted on 08/19/2020 12:43:36 PM PDT by Swirl
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To: Sam Gamgee

why not federally: terrorism, racketeering, conspiracy, damage to federal property .....


8 posted on 08/19/2020 12:43:36 PM PDT by Swirl
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To: knighthawk; All

When are the hangings?


9 posted on 08/19/2020 12:44:59 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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