Governor, top federal officials meet with law enforcement
National Guard soldiers leave the Shelby County Office of Preparedness in on Oct. 1, 2025. (Adrian Sainz/AP)
The visit is the first presence by federal leaders in the city since the task force was formed in September.
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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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