ADAD“We’ve named the operation, as we’ve said, ‘Operation Legend,’ and we started rolling it out a couple of weeks ago in Kansas City,” Barr said. As the Kansas City Star reported, we actually just saw our first federal charge since the operation launched — far from 200 arrests. ADADNot only that, but the arrests Barr was referring to, according to the Justice Department’s clarification, weren’t just FBI arrests as he claimed; they also included local ones. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who like other Democratic mayors has resisted the federal presence in his city, denounced Barr’s false claim during an MSNBC interview. ADNor is Barr the only official in recent days to apparently exaggerate the arrests in Kansas City.

Source: Washington Post July 23, 2020 16:09 UTC