Full recording of meeting that includes rape remark available to stream, City Council says
“During a recent Council meeting, language was used that was sensitive in nature. I do not condone such language, and I will continue to encourage this body to be mindful of how our words can be perceived,” Memphis Council Chairman J. Ford Canale said in a statement. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis City Council addressed its YouTube stream not showing the entirety of the body’s Dec. 2 meeting, where a council member compared a proposed firefighter pay raise to rape.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, 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 Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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