What ‘Defund the police’ really means from those who use the phrase
Activist DeVante Hill (right) leads protesters gathered at I Am A Man Plaza on Thursday, June 11, 2020. One protester holds a sign reading "Defund today, abolish tomorrow." (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The call to "defund" police during three weeks of daily protests in Memphis has grown as action moves from marches to specific issues. The terms doesn't always mean the same thing to everyone, however.
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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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