Sanford: Orange Mound shooting spree struck a nerve. But we cannot concede defeat.
“Both Memphis Mayor Paul Young and Interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis seemed visibly shaken by the news,” says Otis Sanford. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
We’ve had plenty of rallies, vigils and marches. We’ve created one anti-violence group after another. We’ve floated balloons as well as ideas. And still, the deaths keep coming.
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