Memphis - Is This an Opportunity for the DA?

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There have been calls for investigation into all the other special units within the Memphis Police Department. The City Council next week is posed to consider a ordinance that would require more reporting around traffic stops. I'm hoping that this causes us to think about public safety more broadly as a community. It's an opportunity and we just have to see if we take it.

Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wendi C. Thomas of the nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, wasn’t surprised: “I know this city.”

This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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