Bonner claims Freeman video release was illegal and politically motivated
“That video was released illegally. That video should not have been released,” said Shelby County Sheriff and Memphis mayoral candidate Floyd Bonner Jr. (Screenshot from “Behind the Headlines”)
“That video should not have been released,” Bonner said in an interview on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.
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