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‘I hope I’m doing something important’: the Memphis observers tracking Trump’s anti-crime taskforce

‘I hope I’m doing something important’: the Memphis observers tracking Trump’s anti-crime taskforce

A small but dedicated band is keeping tabs on taskforce agents – here’s what the activist monitors have to sayNine months after ordered an anti-crime taskforce onto the streets of Memphis, a small band of dedicated observers is attempting to monitor its actions.They have by agents, who stand accused in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of of having tailed cars, surveilled homes and even “falsely arrested” one community observer.

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‘I hope I’m doing something important’: the Memphis observers tracking Trump’s anti-crime taskforce