Operation Legend (or Operation LeGend) is a federal law enforcement operation in the U.S. The operation was named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 29, 2020. For Operation Legend, agents from various federal agencies were deployed to aid and assist city and county law enforcement officers.
In the early morning hours of June 29, 2020, four-year-old LeGend Taliferro was killed by gunfire while he was sleeping. The death of Taliferro occurred during a time of increased violence in Kansas City and Missouri as a whole, with at least five children being killed in Kansas City in the first six months of 2020.
Operation Legend started in Kansas City and has since spread to other cities around the US that have been experiencing significant increases in violence. Chicago was one such city that joined the operation on July 22nd. The Democratic mayor, Lori Lightfoot, who has struggled to do anything against the rising violence in her city, initially threatened “to sue if President Trump tried to send federal agents into Chicago without permission.”
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