Kansas City police arrest alleged killer of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, namesake of 'Operation LeGend.'
“Operation Legend” is aimed at sending federal resources to cities seeing increases in violent crime even though mayors of many of those cities oppose the move.
The KCPD said that Ellis sent threatening social media messages to a witness after the shooting, which led to Taliferro's family members confronting him about the shooting, including Taliferro's father.applauded the news of Ellis' arrest, with Trump holding up a picture of Taliferro at a news conference at the White House.
Charron Powell, whose son LeGend Taliferro was shot and killed in Kansas City in June, speaks during an event in the East Room at the White House in Washington, July 22, 2020."We named 'Operation LeGend' after LeGend Taliferro, where we are going to be helping out and are in the process of helping out cities throughout our country that have difficulty with crime," Trump said."So that's really good news, they caught the killer of LeGend.
"My daughter had open-heart surgery at a comparable age and I remember how stressful it was for our family," Barr said at the time."And the idea of your child surviving that and, you know, the-- the joy you would feel to see your kid pull through something like that and then have them shot in the face, it -- it affected me a lot."
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