NAACP demands end of Trump’s anticrime taskforce in Memphis after deaths of Black men

The NAACP is calling for an immediate halt to a federal anti-crime operation in Memphis after the deaths of two Black men in Tennessee, one in police custody and the other at the hands of National Guard troops. The Guardian reports that the advocacy group, in a letter to acting attorney general Todd Blanche, is demanding a thorough, transparent federal investigation into the so-called Memphis Safe Task Force, part of President Donald Trump's alliance of federal, state, and local law enforcement. The NAACP says the operation surged federal and military officers into the city with insufficient training for civilian policing.

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