Mississippi public safety commissioner campaigns for attorney general
Sean Tindell, who is running for Mississippi Attorney General, campaigns in Southaven on Thursday, August 20, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
President Ronald Reagan kept a plaque on his desk in the Oval Office that read:
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell told a group of about 20 supporters in Southaven Thursday night that quote has always resonated with him as he made his case to be the state’s next attorney general.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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