https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/28/trump-memphis-crime-taskforce
Showing posts with label Memphis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memphis. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2026
Trump’s Memphis crime taskforce accused of using ‘immense force’ in intimidation campaign
Exclusive: community observers claim agents have tailed cars, surveilled homes and even ‘falsely arrested’ someone…
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Trump Says He Made Memphis Safer. Locals Told Me It Felt Like 1930s Germany or North Korea. – Mother Jones
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, a Democrat who opposed the task force, speculated that crime—which had been a problem—was dropping at least in part because people weren't venturing out nearly as much. "Our risk is that [America is] gonna become a Yemen or a North Korea or something else altogether, where there is an armed individual with a semiautomatic weapon and military fatigues on many corners," he told me. "There may be zero crime, but we also won't be leaving our houses. I know that's a dark scenario, but that's kind of where we are."…
Friday, January 16, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say 'Colossus' facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities…
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Trump says he will send national guard to Democratic-run Memphis
President makes remark on Fox & Friends after Memphis mayor said he requested financial resources instead…
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Memphis police ‘regularly violate constitution’, says justice department
'Exhaustive' investigation finds discrimination against Black people and conduct that 'violates people's civil rights'…
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Memphis Police Department after Tyre Nichols killing pressured to change : NPR
"They never identified themselves as police, so I was kind of scared. Like I thought I was being robbed."
They were police – the same members of the so-called Scorpion task force who attacked Tyre Nichols.
"The crime that he committed was that he was in a car while Black."
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