Citizens question city’s bid to modify police consent decree during public hearing
Community members attend a public forum with a monitoring team discussing the city's recent motion in federal court, asking to modify a decades-old consent decree, on Nov. 7 at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
A Thursday forum on a consent decree forbidding political surveillance by Memphis police, and the city's request to modify it, drew plenty of concerns.
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