Bondi in Memphis: Trump wants ‘cops to be cops again’
National Guard soldiers leave the Shelby County Office of Preparedness in on Oct. 1, 2025. (Adrian Sainz/AP)
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee met with local, state and federal law enforcement in Shelby Farms Park yesterday. The visit was the first presence by federal leaders in the city since the task force was formed in September.
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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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