Fisher: What’s next isn’t just about protests
Memphis mayor Jim Strickland and Devante Hill spoke a press conference at I Am A Man Plaza June 3, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A critic of the Strickland administration, the Rev. Earle Fisher, says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that he hopes Mayor Jim Strickland's talks with religious leaders produce solutions. But he also expressed skepticism, as some of those in the group have accused police of using excessive force in the city's first George Floyd protest.
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