Pastors take steps to control task force impact on their congregations
Church parking lots have been convenient places for state and federal law enforcement officers to meet up.
They are often centrally located in areas where the Memphis Safe Task Force has been conducting operations since Sept. 29.
But they also have come to represent a line of sorts that the pastors of several churches have drawn. The symbolic line marks where their cooperation with the task force ends. It signifies their opposition to MSTF and their concern about its impact on the life of the city.
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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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