Memphis City Council, Mayor Strickland weigh sweeping police reforms
Memphis City Council member Michalyn Easter-Thomas (middle) said the council’s mandate to crack down on reckless driving didn’t mean means “dragging an individual out of their car and beating them.” (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
On The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast, Michalyn Easter-Thomas talks about trying out a ban on traffic stops by police for certain offenses. Other council members want a department-wide review.
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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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