Mayor Young’s stand on Task Force and a showdown on Arctic Frost probe
Memphis Mayor Paul Young speaks at a press conference at the Memphis Safe Task Force's forward operating base in Shelby Farms Oct. 14, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Calls grow for Mayor Paul Young to criticize the tactics of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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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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