The mother of a four-year-old boy who was shot and killed while he slept in a Kansas City, Missouri, apartment in June spoke in support of the Justice Department’s program to send federal officers to aid local law enforcement Wednesday.

LeGend Taliferro was shot on June 29, KSHB Kansas City reported. Shortly after his death, President Donald Trump launched a federal law enforcement operation called “Operation Legend” in Kansas City, and on Wednesday, Trump announced an expansion of Operation Legend to cities hardest hit by violent crime.

“Operation Legend is not to harass, it’s not to harm, or to hurt. It is to help investigate unsolved murders,” said Taliferro’s mother, Charron Powell. “This operation is personal to us. We want justice for our son and others. We have to take a stand in our communities and speak up to help this operation be successful.

As part of the expanded program, Trump said the Department of Justice will send hundreds of federal law enforcement officers from agencies including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to combat violent crime in Chicago, Illinois.

Trump said “we have no choice but to get involved,” after noting that local leadership is responsible for policing neighborhoods.

“In recent weeks, there has been a radical movement to defund, dismantle, and dissolve our police departments. Extreme politicians have joined this anti-police crusade and relentlessly vilified our law enforcement heroes,” Trump said.

“To look at it from any standpoint, the effort to shut down policing in their own communities has led to a shocking explosion of shootings, killings, murders, and heinous crimes of violence. This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end,” Trump said. “Today I’m announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime.”

The DOJ will contribute more than $61 million in grants towards hiring “hundreds” of new police officers in cities that are the target of Operation Legend, the White House announced Wednesday.

“We will never defund the police. We will hire more great police,” Trump said.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/23/operation-legend-donald-trump-chicago-protest-riot-legend-taliferro-mother-charron-powell/

The handgun Patricia McCloskey used to defend her home during a June 28 confrontation with protesters was inoperable at the time the St. Louis crime lab received it, but the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office ordered it reassembled before announcing charges against the couple for felony unlawful use of a weapon and fourth-degree assault offenses

KSDK 5 News first reported documents showing one of the firearms confiscated from the McCloskeys “could not be test fired as submitted.” The document goes on to state that “at the request of [Assistant Circuit Attorney] Chris Hinckley, the firearm was field stripped and found to have been assembled incorrectly.” The crime lab determined the handgun’s firing pin spring was placed in front of the firing pin, which itself was backwards, rendering the gun incapable of firing.

Missouri law requires prosecutors prove a firearm is “readily” capable of lethal use when it is used in crimes such as those for which the couple was charged. Hinckley then ordered the crime lab to reassemble the gun properly, according to KSDK 5.

“The firearms was reassembled properly, test fired and functioned as designed,” the document stated. “No additional defects were observed.”

KSDK 5 further reported crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly process.

Another local news station, KMOV 4 also reported an anonymous source provided them with a copy of the lab report showing the record of alterations to the firearm.

Despite the handgun being inoperable, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner wrote in her charging documents that the weapons the McCloskeys used during a confrontation with protesters surrounding their private property were “readily capable of lethal use.” There is also no reference to the operating condition of the handgun in a probable cause statement police provided for the case. The only reference to the operating condition comes from the charging documents themselves.

The McCloskeys said they had intentionally rendered the handgun inert because they had previously used it as a prop during a lawsuit they once filed against a gun manufacturer. In order to bring it into a courtroom, they had to first render it inoperable.

“It’s disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of the community,” said Joel Schwartz, the attorney for the McCloskeys.

Asked about the reported alterations to the firearm, a spokeswoman for Gardner told the publication “We can’t comment on a pending case.”

Missouri Governor Mike Parson had already indicated he would pardon the McCloskeys prior to Gardner filing charges. Parson said the McCloskeys “had every right to protect themselves.”

Since Gardner filed the charges, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt also announced his intent to intervene in the prosecution and dismiss the case.

“There is a common-law interest if the attorney general feels that the broader interest of Missourians are affected, like the chilling effect that this might have with people exercising their Second Amendment rights,” Schmitt said.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/07/reports-prosecutors-tampered-with-st-louis-couples-gun-to-charge-them/?utm_source=quayle&utm_campaign=alt&utm_medium=facebook

Despite DNC operatives in the media routinely attempting to tar Republicans and conservatives as “racist,” history shows it’s the Democratic Party that has to answer for the nation’s worst racial atrocities – from the birth of the Confederacy, to the founding of the Ku Klux Klan, and right through the Jim Crow era. The Media Research Center is committed to telling the truth about the left, unlike the compliant press that push its extreme views.

Following the election of 1828, the Democratic Party sent it’s first president to the White House – notorious racist Andrew Jackson. During his presidency, Jackson perpetrated the forced relocation of Native Americans from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma, known as the Trail of Tears.

As the 1860 election ushered in the first Republican president, abolitionist Abraham Lincoln, every slave state that would make up the future Confederacy, except Virginia and Tennessee, voted for Democratic candidate John C. Breckinridge.

Reflecting back on the Civil War during a speech in 1876, prominent 19th Century writer Robert G. Ingersoll put it this way: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat….Every man that raised bloodhounds to pursue human beings was a Democrat.”

Following the war, it was Confederate veteran Nathaniel Bedford Forrest – a Democrat – who co-founded the white supremacist terrorist organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. In his book, A Short History of Reconstruction, historian Eric Foner explained: “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.”

As Vanderbilt University political science professor Carol Swain put it for PragerU, “Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative and has a long history of discrimination.”

Case in point, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was a segregationist who once threw civil rights leaders out of the White House.

In 1964, it was Senate Democrats who led a filibuster of the landmark Civil Rights Act that delayed passage of the legislation for 60 days, the longest such obstruction on record. In fact, as The Daily Signal pointed out, the GOP was far more supportive: “The bill received 43 of 46 Republican votes, or 93 percent, and 29 of 49 Democratic votes, or 59 percent.”

Even with this mountain of damning evidence, many in the leftist press still try to conceal the truth of the Democratic Party’s racist history. On June 30, USA Today attempted to do just that with a fake “fact-check” that pretended Democrats weren’t responsible for the Civil War or founding the KKK. The party itself has shamefully hidden its dark past, disgustingly claiming on its website: “For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights….” Conveniently, the historical time line featured on that same page starts in 1920.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/07/23/facts-feared-leftist-media-democratic-party-rooted-racism

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