The Daily Memphian’s metro team wrote about a number of topics over the Thanksgiving week, including the Memphis Safe Task Force, immigration, problems in the General Sessions Court system and more. Here are five select quotes from some of those stories:

• “There’s so many people in this world who didn’t know we touched their lives because it didn’t happen to them,” Karolina Duda said of potential crime victims. The Daily Memphian rode along with U.S. Marshals Service Supervisory Deputy Duda to observe the on-the-ground work of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
• “I heard my son scream,” a Memphis mother said in an interview. School staff told her that they handcuffed her child for their own safety: “I was like, ‘Over a 7-year-old?’” The mother is suing Memphis-Shelby County Schools and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, claiming that Tennessee law doesn’t allow staff to handcuff students with disabilities, like her son.
• “We’re going to restore momentum for Memphis, Tennessee,” said Gov. Bill Lee. “For those who haven’t known how remarkable this great American city is, they now are beginning to understand it.” Lee, along with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, USMS Director Gadyaces Serralta and others, were in Memphis publicly touting the Task Force’s efforts.
• “Failure to comply with this Order may result in an Order to Show Cause, requiring the non-complying party to appear and explain, in person, why this Order has been disobeyed.” That’s from an order — signed by all nine Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court judges and obtained by The Daily Memphian — demanding the county’s Sheriff’s and General Sessions Court Clerk’s offices fix issues causing case delays.
• “For most people, there is simply no way to do it,” Sally Joyner, legal director of Mid-South Immigration Advocates, said of the immigration process. Through more than 20 separate interviews, The Daily Memphian looked at both the lengthy, complex and costly process of becoming a U.S. citizen as well as many local families’ journeys to America.

— Metro editor Jane Donahoe

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“I heard my son scream,” a Memphis mother said in an interview with The Daily Memphian. School staff told her that they handcuffed her child for their own safety: “I was like, ‘Over a 7-year-old?’”

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