Christopher Blank
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32 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 Sep
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For Rachel Spriggs and scores of activists who protested the task force over the weekend, federal help has a checkered history in this majority-Black city.
But many locals, including city council members such as Yolanda Cooper Sutton, say the tough measures are a consequence of previous failed crime interventions.
For Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the solution is a surge of law enforcement from 13 federal agencies and state troopers.
The National Guard, he said Friday, will neither be armed nor make arrests.
It will work with Memphis police as the department focuses on violent crime.
For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
For Rachel Spriggs and scores of activists who protested the task force over the weekend, federal help has a checkered history in this majority-Black city.
But many locals, including city council members such as Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, say the tough measures are a consequence of previous failed crime interventions.
For Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the solution is a surge of law enforcement from 13 federal agencies and state troopers.
The National Guard, he said Friday, will neither be armed nor make arrests.
It will work with Memphis police as the department focuses on violent crime.
For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
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On the web at theschmidt.org.
For Rachel Spriggs and scores of activists who protested the task force over the weekend, federal help has a checkered history in this majority black city.
But many locals, including city council members such as Yolanda Cooper Sutton, say the tough measures are a consequence of previous failed crime interventions.
For Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the solution is a surge of law enforcement from 13 federal agencies and state troopers.
The National Guard, he said Friday, will neither be armed nor make arrests.
It will work with Memphis police as the department focuses on violent crime.
For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
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