City Council members plan to ask Task Force to leave

By , Daily Memphian Published: September 15, 2026 8:34 PM CT

On the one-year anniversary of the executive order that created and sent the Memphis Safe Task Force to the city, relatives and friends of those rounded up in the El Corralon nightclub raid told the council that raid and others have split families.

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Memphis City Council Yolanda Cooper Sutton Michalyn Easter-Thomas Memphis Safe Task Force El Corralon nightclub raid

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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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