Memphis sets up focus groups to ‘reimagine policing’
Darin Abston Jr. with the Memphis People Coalition demands an apology from a Memphis police officer during a June protest. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The “reimagine policing” group is to make recommendations by the start of the new year.
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