Memphis mayor vows to ‘remain at the table’ as law enforcement makes its way into city
Memphis Mayor Paul Young speaks to the media during a Sept. 12, 2025 press conference at Memphis City Hall to discuss the deployment of the National Guard to the city. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young is holding his position as the surge of state and federal law enforcement agencies into the city moved through its first week.
“I did not ask for this intervention. But I will remain at the table. I will stay in the room,” he wrote in his weekly email that went out Friday, Oct. 3. “Because that is what leadership requires: showing up, even when it is complicated, even when it is hard. Leadership means doing what is right for our entire community.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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