Conaway: A pass from the cops that I didn’t earn
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
I ran from the cops, people. I was driving drunk. The driveway I was parked in belonged to a prominent Memphian, then and now. Then and now, there’s every reason to believe if I’d been black in that driveway, I might never have left that driveway.
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