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Trump Orders Feds to Chicago, Other Cities to Address ‘Rampage of Violence’
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July 24, 2020

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President Trump on Wednesday ordered federal officers to Chicago to counter what he called “a rampage of violence.”
“The FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help drive down violent crime,” Trump said in the White House East Room.
“For those people in Chicago and other cities where we’ll be, help is on its way.”
Trump is deploying officers to Chicago and also to Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the national Operation Legend anti-violence initiative, which is named for LeGend Taliferro, a 4-year-old shot dead in Kansas City.
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