Real Talk Memphis with Chip Washington
Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 13 segments
My guests include Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher. From the Importance of voting, to the Memphis Safe Task Force, to the National Guard shooting death of 20-year old Tyrin Johnson in the back near downtown…
Alice Faye DuncanGuestTaylor VanceGuestSo let's take a look at some news notes, shall we? About 4.30 this afternoon, as the clock started to move forward, our elected officials, our newly elected officials, are now permanently ensconced in their positions.
They have been sworn in, or there's a swearing-in ceremony going on downtown right now.
Mayor Mikael Lowry, Sheriff Anthony Buckner, and all of the positions that go along with that.
And all these people who you voted for, I hope you hold them accountable because they need to be held accountable for things that are going on because you voted for them.
Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock in the morning, and I surely want to talk to Earl about this, there was, I guess, a raid or whatever you want to call it.
About 3.15 in the morning, 100 people were detained during an operation led by ICE at a restaurant bar, I guess, on Macon Road.
what this operation was for, you know, any information about it that happened.
All we know is that 100 people or maybe more were taken away in vans and taken somewhere.
But these people were with families and you saw family members sitting with children out there wondering what happened, what's going on, the parents being taken away.
But they were called to basically clear traffic, do traffic duty on all of this.
So clearly somebody didn't tell somebody, or maybe they didn't think it was important enough to tell somebody who heads the city exactly what was going to be happening during this time of night.
So there's that, and plus there's a lot of other issues that are going on in terms of...
Taron Johnson, 20 years old, down in downtown Memphis, where there was some shots fired and this and that.
So let's take a look at some news notes, shall we? About 4.30 this afternoon, as the clock started to move forward, our elected officials, our newly elected officials, are now permanently ensconced in their positions.
They have been sworn in, or there's a swearing-in ceremony going on downtown right now.
Mayor Mikael Lowry, Sheriff Anthony Buckner, and all of the positions that go along with that.
And all these people who you voted for, I hope you hold them accountable because they need to be held accountable for things that are going on because you voted for them.
Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock in the morning, and I surely want to talk to Earl about this, there was, I guess, a raid or whatever you want to call it.
About 3.15 in the morning, 100 people were detained during an operation led by ICE at a restaurant bar, I guess, on Macon Road.
what this operation was for, you know, any information about it that happened.
All we know is that 100 people or maybe more were taken away in vans and taken somewhere.
But these people were with families and you saw family members sitting with children out there wondering what happened, what's going on, the parents being taken away.
But they were called to basically clear traffic, do traffic duty on all of this.
So clearly somebody didn't tell somebody, or maybe they didn't think it was important enough to tell somebody who heads the city exactly what was going to be happening during this time of night.
So there's that, and plus there's a lot of other issues that are going on in terms of...
Taron Johnson, 20 years old, down in downtown Memphis, where there was some shots fired and this and that.
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