Posted on 07/10/2026 2:28:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Advocacy group calls on acting attorney general to lead ‘thorough, transparent federal investigation’
The deaths in recent days of two Black men in Tennessee, one in the custody of police and the other at the hands of national guard troops, has prompted the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to demand the suspension of the so-called Memphis Safe Task Force, Donald Trump’s anti-crime alliance of federal, state and local law enforcement.
In a letter to the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Friday, the NAACP also demanded “a thorough, transparent federal investigation” into the actions of the taskforce, which it said has surged federal and military officers into Memphis with insufficient training for civilian policing.
The action follows the death by shooting of Tyrin Johnson, a 20-year-old new father, by two Tennessee national guard troops in an early morning incident on Sunday; and the discovery of the body of Darius Chappell, a 34-year-old father of three young sons, in a cell at the Montgomery county jail two days earlier.
Chappell was taken into custody on 29 June after what police said was a “use of force” incident in Clarksville. Video of his violent arrest circulating on social media showed a police dog appearing to bite him while he was being held on the ground by several officers.
Authorities have revealed few details about either incident. In Johnson’s case, the Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) asserted he had been in possession of a handgun and had fired shots.
Meanwhile, the Clarksville police department said it had launched an investigation into the deployment of a dog during Chappell’s arrest, and had placed an officer on administrative leave.
The taskforce, established in an executive order by Trump last year as part of the president’s push to reduce perceived soaring crime rates in Democratic-run...
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Is NAACP ever concerned about the thousands of black men gunned down in the ‘hood?
Nope, when blacks kill blacks you dont hear a peep from these fools because there is NO money to be made there
Absolutely not. Which is why, whenever they open their yaps, I know it is Leftist/Marxist/BLM/Democrats talking and show them the hand.
The “black men” have done a fine job killing each other now for quite some time. The city of Memphis is roughly 80% black. The obvious being refuted is pretty comical.
Whining and sniveling by the cockroaches...
Call Terminix!
It’s them being shot by whites that’s the problem.
The idiots in the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People as Rush liked to call them, should be lecturing black men, not to commit crimes or put themselves in a position that may cause them to lose their lives. Rush also used to say “actions have consequences,” but these numb-nuts want to be seen as the victims all the time.
How many blacks were killed by other blacks in Chicago over the same period? See also: Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Oakland, et every other city run by NAACP backed mayors and city councils.
You are correct. Memphis is safer now than it has been in years but that does not matter to these racist a-holes.
Race baiting.
I would bet MONEY that blacks are disproportionately impacted by the crime and high murder rate.
They stand MOST to gain by this problem getting dealt with.
But it’s all about perceptions and feelings, and this issue has been twisted into some symbolic BS political grandstanding event, with the TDS suffering MSM fueling this nonsense.
The magic Negro… White people can be knifed in the neck on trains, pushed onto the tracks of subways, beaten within an inch of their lives by ferals and nobody says a word. But don’t you dare cause the death of a black dude/dudette who needed to be stopped from doing something illegal because in woke world, it’s the greatest sin.
You’d think the ncaap would be demanding their folks stop being criminals.
The ordinary law abiding blacks in Memphis are happy to see the thugs taken down.
The CP in NAACP is racist. They should change their name to the National Association for the Advancement of African American Humans or NAAAAH.
Only black men can kill other black men!
Yeah, at a WalMart in Mississippi , cop trying to speak to some shop lifters , driver aims car at cop, cop fires, 1 year old child struck and killed.
Would it be too much to drop the child off before embarking on a rip off at the local WalMart. Do criminals have a take your child to work day ?
Hoping they provide cover ? Stash stuff in the stroller ? Some people were saying the baby’s momma used her child as a human shield.
Tear gas was deployed the other day to disperse a crowd from the WalMart parking lot.
And his momma cried
In the ghetto 🎶.
Who sang it better, Elvis or Cartman ?
LOL at the focus on fathers being shot.
Memphis is 63% black (or so)
Hahahah! Tough call on the song.... i’m gonna have to think about that one for a little bit
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