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Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news
The Memphis Safe Task Force, a federal-state agency coalition, has fatally shot four Black men and injured three others in two months. U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty praised the task force in a campaign ad highlighting its crime-fighting efforts, despite minimal national media coverage of the violence. Local outlets have reported on the incidents, but national news has largely overlooked them.
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