Trump Has Fu*ked Memphis

"Every agency you can think of" has been sent, carrying out all-day traffic stops in Black/brown neighborhoods, Memphis' Amber Sherman tells us; cops are also arresting those filming them within 25 ft

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While we have been ON-THE-GROUND leading coverage of Trump’s invasion of Chicago, the president’s violent invasion of Memphis, Tennessee has gotten less attention.

“There’s about 1,500 federal agents,” Amber Sherman, a Memphis resident and policy organizer told Status Coup (video link above). “Literally every federal department you can think of has sent federal agents here that are doing traffic stops in Black and brown neighborhoods all day long consistently starting around 6am in the morning somehow up until one or two at night.”

Sherman also conveyed how a draconian law passed in Tennessee earlier this year is emboldening both ICE—and state police—to crack down on first amendment protected protest and free speech.

The so-called “buffer law,” which went into effect on July 1st, that prohibits people from filming the police within 25 feet. The controversial new law, which is a clear way to further remove accountability for police misconduct, is now being weaponized against anti-ICE protesters—who as Jordan and Amber discuss, are being threatened with arrest if they are not standing 25 feet back.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW ABOVE.

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