At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”
The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”
“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.
“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”
At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing… the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”
Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.
Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
53 arrests in two days… in a city the size of Memphis. How many millions of our taxes went into each arrest?
This whole gang of idiots is more pathetic than I ever knew a human could be. This is what happens when your parents hate you.
And we’ll see how many of those actually stick. In DC a ton of the charges were just dismissed once they reached a courtroom.
It really will depend on how they run the trials. If they do get a jury of their peers, people from Memphis, the prosecutors will dismiss most of the bullshit. If they manage to get the trial set out in the Sticks they will make it stick and most of the cases. DC is kind of a special case because the jury pool is rather well informed.
We could be thankful they are coming off half cocked but seeing as the opposition is so weak and our institutions so rotted and captured it probably will not make a difference. They are trying to set precedent now so they can declare martial law later, 2028 in mind. The election.