President Trump may send federal agents to other cities run by incompetent Ds.

[Jon Miller]

I started to see reports that they were pulling back from what is happening in Portland. The Federal agents will have their names and agencies on badges and may? not have live weapons.

Esper was also protesting what was happening because he was concerned that the federal agents might be confused with active duty soldiers.

JM

[Kidlicious]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1285601432276803585?s=09

[Kidlicious]

Antifa mom handing a brick to someone to throw.

For JR

[-Jrabbit]

I don't support this.

[Kidlicious]

Antifa is organized.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1285483909329739777?s=09

[Kidlicious]

40 agents doxxed. This is the problem. They are in the government.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/dhs-nearly-40-feds-doxed-over-portland-riot-work/

[-Jrabbit]

Andy Ngo is a provocateur journalist and a right-wing troll. He proudly admits it. But even he doesn't call this ragtag group "Antifa." Of course, he doesn't call them "protesters" either. He prefers to call them "rioters."

For a more journalistic view of Portland, I recommend Sergio Olmos. https://twitter.com/MrOlmos

[Kidlicious]

They are rioters.

18 officers sent to hospital.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/49-officers-injured-with-18-sent-to-the-hospital-after-grant-park-protest-turns-into-riot/

[-Jrabbit]

Andy Ngo is in Portland. That LET link goes to an article about last Friday in Chicago.
I know you're all excited about 45's new political theater project, but dude, at least pick a lane.

[Kidlicious]

Um. that's Chicago.

[Kidlicious]

Posting this here because rickityclick promises to protect me from Antifa. Protesters against defunding the police and unlawful statue removal are outnumbered and attacked by Antifa and BLM. Michelle Malkin attacked see video. Pro-BLM police chief may be responsible.

https://uniteamericafirst.com/eric/michelle-malkin-attacked-by-antifa-and-black-lives-matter-thugs-at-denver-back-the-blue-rally/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

[ricketyclik]

Oh my god!  Terrifying!  Just terrifying!  Those antifa are clearly life threatening!  Head for the hills!

[Kidlicious]

Typical response from those who have their communities destroyed.

[-Jrabbit]

Update from today's Chicago Tribune on federal troops:

Chicago, feds to collaborate

Lightfoot: ‘We do not welcome dictatorship’ in effort to stem violence in city

By Gregory Pratt, Jeremy Gorner and Jamie Munks

After a frenzied 24 hours during which Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to sue if President Donald Trump tried to send federal agents into Chicago without her permission, she acknowledged Tuesday that the city would be working with federal agents to fight crime but warned that her administration would be vigilant against abuses of power.

Lightfoot changed her tone after talking with U.S. Attorney John Lausch, a former colleague who she has said she respects and admires, who assured her an influx of law enforcement would be working “collaboratively” with Chicago cops against violent crime.

The unfolding situation in Chicago “at this point” won’t resemble the situation playing out in Portland, Oregon, where unidentified federal agents wearing camouflage uniforms have been denounced by local leaders for their actions, Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference.

Instead, Lightfoot said she expects Chicago will receive resources that will plug into existing federal agencies that already work with the city, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Still, Lightfoot was careful not to put too much trust in the White House and an administration with which she’s had a mostly adversarial relationship since she took office last year.
“I don’t put anything past this administration, which is why we will continue to be diligent and why we will continue to be ready,” Lightfoot said. “If we need to stop them and use the courts to do so, we are ready to do that.”

For Lightfoot, the prospect of increased federal assistance for anti-crime efforts is a thorny proposition. More federal agents could help with the city’s skyrocketing violence, but the unfolding controversy in Portland and Trump’s repeated harsh rhetoric toward Chicago has led to high public mistrust in the federal government.

The announcement about federal agents coming to Chicago is the latest development in an ongoing war of words between the Republican president and Democratic mayor.
Last month, Trump lashed out at Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker over Chicago’s gun violence , saying the two had put their “own political interests” ahead of the lives of residents and insisting that “law and order” was needed.

Lightfoot, who has ripped Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, responded with a statement saying she doesn’t “need leadership lessons” from the president and accused him of using victims of gun violence to try to score “cheap political points.”

In recent weeks, Lightfoot repeatedly has questioned the sincerity of Trump’s offer to help Chicago and denounced his response to George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer.
“What I really want to say to Donald Trump … begins with F and it ends with U ,” she said in May after Floyd was killed.

On Monday, the Tribune reported that the Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to the city this week.

The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, the Tribune reported, though the specifics of their mission were not made public.

At her news conference, Lightfoot did not specify how many agents were coming to Chicago, from what agencies or which federal officials she talked to aside from Lausch.
But an official with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday the Trump administration plans to send 150 agents to Chicago, with about 75 coming from HSI and the rest coming from other federal agencies.

They’ll largely be working on drug cases that are fueling crime, the official said, adding that the city wouldn’t be worried about the group of feds coming in if the situation with Portland weren’t happening.

Chicago police and other big-city departments across the country regularly work with federal agencies such as the FBI, DEA, ATF and the U.S. attorney’s office on investigations into drug- and gun-trafficking and myriad other crimes tied to violence. In Chicago, such investigations are often based in certain neighborhoods on the South and West sides where much of the violence in the city occurs. One incentive for the partnership is the potential for a lengthier prison sentence for people tried and convicted in the federal system as opposed to being prosecuted in state court.
Such partnerships over the years have been through federal programs such as Project Exile, aimed at shifting more gun prosecutions to federal judges so they can hand down stiffer penalties on convicts, and Project Safe Neighborhoods, designed to better coordinate federal resources and local intelligence on crime.

Lightfoot’s attitude on Tuesday toward the additional federal help was a stark contrast from the night before, when she appeared on the MSNBC show “The ReidOut” and said she would use every tool she has to stop Trump from sending “troops” to the city, including filing a lawsuit.

“We’re not going to have tyranny in the city of Chicago,” Lightfoot said.

As she explained the situation with Trump on Tuesday, Lightfoot said the federal government could help Chicago by sending resources that work through the existing federal infrastructure.
“I sent a letter to the president yesterday outlining various ways in which, if he really wanted to partner with us, that he could do so. There are some things the federal government is uniquely qualified to handle. We would welcome that,” Lightfoot said. “What we do not welcome, and what we will not tolerate, and we will fight against is the deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents onto our streets to detain people without cause and effectively take away their civil rights and their civil liberties without due process. That is not going to happen in Chicago, and if we see that, the minute we see it, we will be rushing into court to stop that from happening.

“We welcome actual partnership,” Lightfoot added. “But we do not welcome dictatorship, we do not welcome authoritarianism and we do not welcome unconstitutional arrest and detainment of our residents.”

Trump is no stranger to toying with the idea of sending more federal law enforcement to Chicago.

Days after his inauguration in 2017, he took to Twitter to criticize the city’s violence, proposing a vague solution: “I will send in the Feds!”

At the time, it was a declaration that kept city officials guessing. Did he mean more federal aid to Chicago police? Would he send more resources to the FBI and other federal agencies that already work in Chicago? Did he intend to send in the National Guard?

That summer, 20 ATF agents were sent to Chicago to help form a task force aimed at cutting the flow of illegal guns in the city and cracking down on people arrested repeatedly on gun-related charges. Among other duties, the group was tasked with examining bullet casings recovered from crime scenes to perform expedited ballistics testing to determine if the casings were expended from the same guns used in other shootings.

Despite the history of cooperation, Lightfoot’s support for more federal agents drew criticism from some progressive members of the City Council.

“We need to oppose the presence of federal agents in Chicago, specially during such a critical time where people are taking the streets to demand justice,” Democratic Socialist Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, 33rd, said in a tweet. “Our duty as a city is to protect them, not throw the (T)rump police at them.”

Earlier in the day, Pritzker called plans for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to send federal agents to Chicago “a wrongheaded move on the part of Donald Trump, on the part of the Department of Homeland Security.”

DHS officials could not be reached for comment, while a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice declined to comment.

A Department of Justice spokeswoman on Monday indicated an announcement would be forthcoming on an expansion of what has been dubbed Operation Legend, which saw several federal law enforcement agencies assist local police in Kansas City, Missouri, including the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service.

Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who’s being considered as Democrat Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, also expressed concern over the move, along with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.

“What’s happening in Portland, and what could happen in Chicago or any number of cities across the country, is deeply troubling,” Duckworth said. “The Trump administration is using this as another opportunity to trample on the First Amendment rights of Americans.”

Duckworth said she would join Durbin and Oregon’s Democratic U.S. senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, in pushing a law to prevent the administration “from deploying federal forces as a shadowy paramilitary against Americans.”

TL/DR: It's probably happening, but very different from Portland.

[Kidlicious]

Like I said, rubber bullets are the norm, especially when you are dealing with such nasty characters. The feds aren't going to take orders from her, but drink the koolaid if that helps.

[Kidlicious]

Operation Legend

"Barr Announces Launch of Operation Legend


Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime, beginning in Kansas City, MO. Operation Legend was created as a result of President Trump’s promise to assist America’s cities that are plagued by recent violence.

Operation Legend is named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City, the latest in a string violence to plague Kansas City in recent weeks. Kansas City has already reached 100 homicides this year, a 40 percent increase from last year.

“President Trump has made clear: the federal government stands ready and willing to assist any of our state and local law enforcement partners across the nation responding to violent crime. Operation Legend will combine federal and local resources to combat the disturbing uptick in violence by surging federal agents and other federal assets into cities like Kansas City, a city currently experiencing its worst homicide rate in its history,” said Attorney General Barr. “The Department’s Operation Legend is named in honor of one of Kansas City’s youngest victims, four-year old LeGend Taliferro who was shot in the face while sleeping in his bed. LeGend’s death is a horrifying reminder that violent crime left unchecked is a threat to us all and cannot be allowed to continue.”

As part of Operation Legend, Attorney General Barr directed federal agents from the FBI, U.S. Marshal Service, DEA and ATF to surge resources to Kansas City in the coming weeks to help state and local officials fight the surge of violent crime. They will be working alongside state and local law enforcement agencies. Department of Justice assets will include over 100 FBI agents, U.S. Marshals, DEA agents, and ATF agents.

In addition, Timothy A. Garrison, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri will be surging additional resources from his office to ensure he is able to handle an anticipated increase in prosecutions."

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-legend

[Proteus_MST]

Am I correctly to assume that this is operation is only meant to work against BLM and not against violence from the right wing political spectrum?

[Kidlicious]

No. It's not targeted towards the BLM, and whatever you heard about right wing groups is probably fake news put out by Democrats to fool you.

[Kidlicious]

Chicago Police release video of attack on them with commentary. They stabbed them with sharp PVP pipe.

https://youtu.be/fqqGGqLlrw4

[ZEE]

Gribbler is incorrect.

[Berzerker]

gun control?

[Kidlicious]

Giblets dreams of being extradited to communist China in a van marked "CCP."

[Kidlicious]

Mayor of Portland joined the insurrection against the United States. The fake news on this is ridiculous. He told the insurgents that the feds were going to use live ammo on them.