Trump announces 'surge' of federal agents to cities hit by gun violence

The move came a day after 15 people in Chicago, the country’s third-largest city, were wounded in a drive-by shooting at a funeral for a man recently gunned down in what police called gang violence.

“We want to make law enforcement stronger, not weaker,” he said, adding that, for the cities, “Help is on the way.”Barr said officers from the FBI, US Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, would be boosted in Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of ongoing Operation Legend, named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, shot and killed while he slept on June 29 in Kansas City.

Both figures are up around 50 percent from a year ago. Officials blame frustration and economic pains from the COVID-19 crisis, stepped gang rivalries, and easy access to guns. For the most part, protests across the country since the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer have been peaceful and focus on racism and police abuse.

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