Attorney General Bill Barr discusses new developments in Operation Legend on 'Hannity.'
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We are late and we have the
attorney general standing by
good to see you
return to this breaking news
tonight: major federal
law enforcement initiative named
operation legend.
The program leverages key
resources from the: U Dot S
government, to track down and
arrest. The perpetrator is
responsible for unsolved
murders. It was named after a 4 year old.
It was named after a 4 year old
little boy, Legend Taliferro,
killed by gunfire while asleep
in his bed.
His suspected killer has been
taken, thankfully, into custody
and charged with second degree
murder.
Here with more the
attorney general of the
United States. Thank you for
being with us.
This is huge
and, thank God, looks like we got
our man
thats what we believe and
hes been charged with the
murder,
as you know, with the
demonization of the police that
has occurred recently, weve
seen an upsurge upsurge in Viole
many of our inner cities and our
response to that has been to
work closely with state and
local law enforcement who are
willing to work closely with us
in a number of cities, including
Kansas City, to go after these
violent criminals and stop this
bloodshed.
We called it operation legend in
honor of this 4 year old boy who
was shot so he became a symbol
of the black lives that were
being lost in the inner city,
the hundreds and hundreds that
have been killed with the
demonization of the police,
and today I think the message is
that in this particular case,
our system worked
what happened as a symbol of the
fact that the local
law enforcement, the Kansas City
police, working closely with the
FBI and U Dot s marshals, were able
to find this man and charge him
with murder.
Whats involved here is the will
to deal with this violent crime
in the inner cities
it can be handled. We need the
will
ive pay very close
attention to your interview,
inserted many people highly
viewed
and you went into detail about a
new form of urban guerrilla
warfare and how demonstrations
and again some are very
peaceful protesters, universal
outrage and shock and horror of
the video of George Floyd. That
cant happen,
Mr Attorney general in this
country- and I know you agree
with that, but hijacking the
demonstrations away from some
peaceful protesters and
provoking violence
weve seen over two thousand cops. Fourteen
now dead, rocks and bottles and
bricks molotov cocktails,
knives hockey sticks canes,
frozen water bottles,
its now warfare against cops in
this country in some of the
cities, Sir
thats absolutely right.
The legitimate demonstrations
in the wake of Mr Floyds death
have long since, given way to
violent attacks. Efforts to tear
down the system, violent attacks
on the police, on federal courts
and police precincts by a small
group of radical violent
extremists
whose agenda has nothing to do
with the death of George Floyd
or protecting black lives and.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-13.