Differences emerge in police reform
A Memphis police officer listens to protestors during an Aug. 26, 2020 protest held at the South Memphis Mapco where U.S. Marshals shot a 16-year-old in a case of mistaken identity. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Two conversations about police reform show the more detailed the proposed reforms become, the more differences they reveal.
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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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