The Year in Pictures: You Pick 'em

We got around in 2018. So did Freedom Fighters who boldly and bravely stood up for all of us.

It's the holidays, and we're allowed to do something just for fun. Recall these photos, these people, these events, the struggles. And rank your top 5 favorite photos – you know, like Ranked Choice Voting, on our Facebook page in "comments" – and we will tally the results and post the “winners’” next week.

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Vote by whatever criteria you want – your rules. We had no rules for picking these – it was totally subjective (“It’s my party…” and all that). Some of these may evoke painful memories; we left out several that we thought might be too painful or sensitive to publish at this time.

SPY HARD

1—Apparently, the “Gray Panther Party of Memphis” is a threat to public safety as this MPD surveillance van backs up to a fence to snoop. Nearby Fight for $15 organizers also were preparing a march from Clayborn Temple to City Hall on Feb. 12, the 50^th anniversary of when the sanitation workers went on strike. The spy van, which is adorned with multiple cameras that can transmit to the giant video wall at the Real Time Crime Center, was conspicuous only feet away from organizers.

The city’s spy vans, Department of Homeland Security and the bumbling “Bob Smith” Facebook marauder spied hard. So hard that the ACLU won a lawsuit against the city for collecting photos and information on persons whom they identified as activists – even the mother of a police shooting victim and several citizens whose offense was buying movie tickets for teenagers. A Federal judge ruled the city was wrong and ordered the city to change its ways and come under the scrutiny of a court-appointed monitor.

50 YEARS LATER, THINGS ARE NOT OK

2—Objecting that 50 years after Dr. King’s murder not much has changed for the better, citizens trekked to Tchulahoma Road outside FedEx facilities on April 3.

One day before MLK50 Day, with embedded media such as New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, LA Times, Daily Kos and local independents in tow, activists shut down the street for 25 minutes as part of a “Rolling Block Party” which was advanced on Facebook. The 12-car caravan “rolled” to the target location, “blocked” traffic, then had a “party,” dancing to music coordinated on every car’s radio as they baffled police, who did not interfere. They even got cheers from nearby FedEx employees, and one FedEx employee got out of his car to dance with a pretty protester.

FIRST AMENDMENT AND IMMIGRATION

3—Organized Crime Unit Lieutenant Pruitt points out Spanish-language journalist Manuel Duran, and other OCU officers close in to arrest him on April 3 in front of 201 Poplar, location of the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center and jail. Pruitt or another officer is heard saying, “Get him, guys,’ in Duran’s live-stream video, which survived his arrest and subsequent seizing by ICE for deportation.

Duran was wearing a press lanyard and covering a street theater demonstration against local ICE hold policies and ICE detention center abuses. Duran clearly was targeted, first by local law enforcement, then later sources told us that orders to seize him for deportation came “from the top in Washington.”

Yuleiny Escobar (left), who along with other women were acting as ICE prisoners and wearing chains, yells to police, “He’s a reporter; he’s a reporter,” and she and a tearful Zyanya Cruz (holding Duran) try to protect him from the cops’ clutches. They, Duran and six others who crossed the street within the cross walk were arrested. It was only 60 seconds from the time they stepped off the curb until police began making arrests. By comparison, the red light at Poplar Avenue and Danny Thomas Boulevard lasts 51 seconds.

4--Police objective was to shut down activists one day before MLK50 day and before any other actions could take shape later that day. In fact, a 6:30 p.m. action at the Hernando DeSoto Bridge had been hinted on social media and seized on by Tennessee Homeland Security and the Tennessee Fusion Center. MPD command staff already was pissed off about the road blockade at FedEx that morning. 

Police waved me off, pushed me aside and took my picture as I recorded the chaos in the street. My implorations to officers to “think this over” and “call a major” and “you’re hurting her” were useless in the commotion. On a personal note, this was my most disturbing moment from the streets in 2018 as I was helpless to protect mis amigas preciosas. The video has been used by national and international media and by Southern Poverty Law Center attorneys working to free Manuel Duran. 

MLK WEEK ANGER

5—As MLK50 week mercifully came to a close, citizens gathered in front of City Hall at a planned, official event on April 7. Mayor Jim Strickland spoke, but the crowd yelled at him and held signs demanding justice for Manual Duran, who had been arrested by Memphis police and then seized by ICE.

6—Later addressing the crowd outside City Hall on April 7 and holding aloft a photo of journalist Manuel Duran meeting with Mayor Strickland, supporters of Duran criticize police and the mayor for their role in arresting Duran and other non-threatening activists. Edie Love (red cap, left) delivered to Strickland the most exquisite excoriation of a public official that we have ever witnessed.  

As Love wraps up, Memphis COO Doug McGowen awkwardly joins the crowd in applauding while Strickland says to McGowen, “I don’t need this,” and they turn to enter City Hall before Love and crew walk past them.

PROSECUTING WATER PROTECTERS

Katherine Hanson, Ryan Barnett, Spencer Kaaz and Olivia Ramirez hurry up and wait at a January court appearance

7—After returning to Memphis from their Oklahoma and Missouri homes seven times for court appearances that mostly got postponed, the last of the cases against seven persons who had protested the Diamond Oil Pipeline on MLK Day 2017 were finally concluded on April 30. Oklahomans Olivia Ramirez (Osage) and Ryan Barnett (Muscogee) said their First Nation ancestries moved them to act in defense of the Earth and water. 

The seven had bound themselves to concrete-filled barrels and squatted in front of the Valero Refinery on the banks of the Mississippi River. “Water Protectors” they were called by environmental action organization Arkansas Rising. Ramirez, Barnett, Katherine Hanson of Missouri and Spencer Kaaz of Memphis refused to take the prosecutor’s “deal,” which asked them to pay $6,000 each as a sort of punishment for police and fire department deployments.

While their charges were down to a Class C misdemeanor of “obstructing a highway or passageway,” the lowest possible level of crime, they refused to take any deals and insisted on a trial – which kicked them up to Judge Bobby Carter’s court which hears felonies. Carter was clearly annoyed that he was having to deal with this.

“Next to my whole jail full of murderers, rapists, robberies and things that I have to get done… (your cases are) going to be a lower priority in scheduling,” Carter complained as he twice put off trial dates after the out-of-staters dutifully had traveled from afar. Finally, the four agreed to pay a $50 fine, which is prescribed for the Class C offense, and get on with life.

8—Pro bono attorneys Jason Ballenger and Josie Holland were also heroes from the drawn-out court drama. Michael Working and Joe McClusky also represented defendants without charging a fee, each lawyer taking one defendant.

9--Ramirez, Hanson and Barnett get ready for a group hug, relieved that their 15-month and several-thousand-miles ordeal is over. We followed almost every step of the courthouse machinations and have enough video and story to make or supplement a great documentary – if somebody will only fund us! Best quote from the courtroom slog came from a managing prosecutor who remarked to me, "They don't look like hippies." 

SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA LAUGH

10—Keedran Franklin and Hunter Demster became prominent in local and national media as activists for social change. For standing up for everyday people and regularly criticizing local officials, they became targeted by police and the object of specious arrests. This photo represents a lighter moment before the two joined persons protesting Trump’s anti-Palestine policies at Poplar and Highland on May 25.

Franklin had come up behind me and acted like he was the police grabbing me. Funny, not funny. Moments later he did the same thing to Demster.

IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY

11—Supporters of Palestinian liberation deliver their message to a MATA bus – on which appears its destination: “AMER WAY,” short for American Way, a prominent Memphis thoroughfare. Many persons who rallied at Poplar and Highland on May 25 have family members in Palestine and implore the Trump administration to act more in an “American Way” toward refugees and persecuted peoples. Said differently, have we lost our American Way? It struck me as ironic -- anyone else?

PRISON CORPORATION ON LOCKDOWN

12—When the sun came up on Aug. 6 at CoreCivic’s corporate headquarters in Nashville, their plaza and garage were decorated with signs decrying the for-profit prison corporation’s abuses. A huge sign read, “This Facility is on Lockdown,” and a woman suspended 30 feet in the air blocked the entrance. Other opponents of the former Corrections Corporation of America were chained together with their arms inside steel pipes and blocked underground garage portals. It looked like a scene from a movie set.

TRUMPISM GONE LOCAL

13--In the Trump era, do other self-dealing, bellicose politicians think they have some sort of cover?

In this Aug. 14 photo, citizen Bonnie Chidester (at podium) asks Memphis City Council Chairman Berlin Boyd (standing behind dais) to disclose the details of his part in a $24-million dollar development which benefited from a taxpayer subsidy. Boyd bristled at being questioned but did not have police throw Chidester out of City Hall -- as he has done others who criticized him during Council meetings in 2018.

TRUMPED IN TUPELO

14—“Watch this,” a middle-aged woman said to her friend before flipping me off at a Nov. 26 MAGA rally where Trump showed up to support Cindy Hyde-Smith’s U.S. Senate campaign. “Trump wants us to get rid of the media.” 

Admittedly, we went down there to interview the crazies -- and we were not disappointed on that count "He's one of us," truck drivers and working Mississippi people said of the alleged billionaire from New York; a "Q" conspiracy follower tried to explain the "Anons," and my producer heard the "N-word" tossed around casually, like one might say, "Pass the salt." 

15—Doubling down on Trump. This young woman wearing two MAGA caps declined to be interviewed, then persistently gave me the Evil Eye. Finally, after getting flipped off by several middle-aged women and hearing Trump fans discuss how they could hit us with their signs, I got it: Trump has inflamed his legions to hate the media to a extent I had not realized. Being a white guy with gray hair, wearing a black suit and red tie, gave me no cover in Trump Town, Mississippi, as my camera and White House press corps credentials made me a target. Before Trump arrived, a Secret Service woman pulled me and my producer inside the media pen. Only later did I consider it was for my own protection.

1—MPD surveillance van and “Gray Panther Party” Feb. 12

2—“Things are not OK” outside FedEx April 3

3—Organized Crime Unit targets Manuel Duran April 3

4—Police arrest street theater actors at 201 Poplar April 3

5—“Free Manuel” crowd yells at Mayor Strickland April 7

6—Edie Love rips Strickland, city officials April 7

7—Water Protectors grind through criminal court system April 30

8—Pro Bono attorneys Jason Ballenger and Josie Holland April 30

9—Water Protectors celebrate that case finally is settled April 30

10—Keedran and Hunter laughing over Keedran’s joke May 25

11—“American Way” on bus at Palestine liberation rally May 25

12—CCA on Lockdown Aug. 6

13—Bonnie Chidester challenges Berlin Boyd Aug. 14

14—Trump fan flips me off in Tupelo Nov. 26 
15—Trump fan gives media the evil eye Nov. 26

Last word from the wordy: Obviously, I did not take this photo, because I'm the one in the cop uniform. Here we put on a Know Your Rights Theater and Workshop at Cottonwood Apartments, which often has been targeted by ICE. 

Court docs show how city of Memphis criminalizes citizens who assemble against government policies

Memphis police have been earnestly monitoring Facebook and Twitter accounts of social justice activists and publishing a daily “Joint Intelligence Bulletin” since March 2016, according to court pleadings released July 24 by the City of Memphis.

MPD's PowerPoint on local activists

The document dump, including excerpts from depositions of police officials and MPD Director Michael Rallings, was attached to the city’s motion for summary judgment in response to the ACLU’s motion to hold the city in contempt of an 1978 federal court order which forbade the city from gathering political intelligence on citizens. The city’s motion was filed last month in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

 

The plaintiff ACLU on March 2, 2017, joined a lawsuit against the city by four individuals who discovered they were on a “black list” of citizens who were to be escorted while in City Hall. 

In a chilling disclosure, police culture is revealed to demonize "protesters" and regard them as presenting a threat of criminal activity -- although none of those persons targeted has committed any violent acts. 

Police Oversight Board Demands Respect -- even if Mayor has to Replace the Police Chief

Dismissed by the police director and diminished by the mayor, the Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board sought to find its footing in a meeting of firsts today.

CLERB members voted 10-0 to appeal to Mayor Jim Strickland to support the relevance of the board, calling for the replacement of Police Director Michael Rallings if necessary, and they voted unanimously to subpoena four officers who allegedly beat and maced Marcus Walker and his nephew in 2011 in an “initiation” type assault.

 Marcus Walker explains what police did to him seven years ago

Rallings has rejected every single CLERB finding that disagreed with police internal affairs and every recommendation about certain training or discipline of officers. The board has no independent authority to discipline officers and may do no more than make recommendations to the police director.

“Director Rallings is all but ignoring the board’s recommendations,” the board wrote in a letter which will go out to Mayor Strickland. “Unfortunately, Director Rallings has chosen…to render the board ineffective by rejecting all of our recommendations. Some of these cases involved unquestionable video footage, and it is beyond absurd that none of our recommendations have been accepted.”

CLERB member John Marek, Marcus Walker listen to discussion

WASTING VOLUNTEERS’ TIME

“The members of CLERB volunteer our time, and currently, it is being wasted,” the letter to Strickland continues. “CLERB needs one of four things to take place before our board can be effective:

“1) Director Rallings to be reasonable and at least meet us in the middle on our decisions (compromise); 2) A new police director who will work with us; 3) A new ordinance that gives CLERB binding decision-making power, or 4) an amendment to the current ordinance, which gives appellate power to the mayor over the police director’s decisions.”

The request to subpoena officers is the first under the latest ordinances, since CLERB was revived in 2015 and its ordinance amended in 2016. CLERB was secretly disbanded in 2011 by Mayor A.C. Wharton’s administration and was only brought back after a strong grassroots campaign led by Memphis United and Paul Garner, organizing director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center. The letter to Strickland was the first formal notice to the mayor about CLERB being disrespected -- although board members had been discussing it for a year.  

'I came to Memphis, and all I got was this big bruise'

Elizabeth Vega waits outside Memphis courtroom 

And arrested.

It was astonishing that Elizabeth Vega of St. Louis could joke about it.

A veteran of four years in the Navy, a former journalist and an activist, Vega came to Memphis during MLK50 week. Unlike many wide-eyed, Beale Street-trekking, rib-munching tourists that the City of Memphis had spent millions to woo to town, Vega had a different idea.

Street theater actors call attention to abuses in ICE detention centers; Elizabeth Vega in light blue top

Vega took part in a street theater performance in front of the Shelby County Justice Center. Wearing scrubs to simulate prison garb and chained together with about 10 other women -- and led by an ICE agent male “actor” -- they were bringing attention to forced labor and other abuses in ICE detention centers. 

WHAT WOULD MLK DO?

Vega displays her Memphis 'souvenir' 

“We have nothing to lose but our chains,” they chanted, highlighting the irony of MLK 50, that although society has progressed in some ways, in many ways things are the same or worse – such as poverty in Memphis and such as police spying on and suppressing organized protest.

“No change, 50 years. All these police,” Yuleiny Escobar shouted into a megaphone amid a massive presence of police tactical officers and equipment, including a surveillance van and officers filming the crowd with a DSLR camera.

Police pulled Vega down by her hair
Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50: Justice in Journalism

This was how “the people” honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. What would MLK do? Would he show up in the streets with these brave women, or would he be sitting at a luncheon or banquet among elected officials and “dignitaries?”

‘POLICE LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS’

“Memphis police violated civil rights and lost their damn minds,” Vega said, awaiting her fate in court inside the very building where she had stood less than 24 hours earlier and only a handful of hours after she had been released from jail after getting bonded out.

Police try to wave away our camera as they handcuff Yuleiny Escobar

Vega and eight others were charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway or passageway, which are charges police put on prostitutes who are not caught in the act but whom police want to sweep off the streets – and charges put on protesters who are not breaking any actual laws but whom police also want to sweep clean from the view of tourists.

“They grabbed Manuel (Duran), and he was a journalist,” Vega said. “As a former journalist, I take that very serious. I pointed out he was a journalist. I was like, Let him go.

Manuel Duran broadcasts live, moments before arrest

“Next thing I know they grabbed me by my hair. And then the rest is just sort of a blur. It was so brutal that I kind of checked out a little bit.  I didn’t really pass out; I think I just went into myself.  I’ve been arrested a lot of times for civil disobedience, and this is one of the most brutal encounters I have had with police. It was on another level.  And we hadn’t done anything.

TARGETING ACTIVISTS

“Part of it was they were targeting folks. There had been an incident the day before. They didn’t arrest me then. They came to the sidewalk and they threatened to arrest me for refusing to show my ID.”

At that encounter, citizens in a North Memphis neighborhood were handing out flyers urging others to boycott a small, corner store after a store clerk allegedly shot a 17-year-old for stealing an 89-cent watermelon wine cooler. The young man, Dorian Harris, died, but his body was not found until two days later.

“I don’t have to show you my ID,” Vega told police, who somehow decided to hassle her and local government watchdog Hunter Demster out of 30 or so persons standing on a sidewalk across the street from the store.

“And then they said that they were going to arrest me, and I sat down on the sidewalk and began to sing. Then they said that were going to get me, and I guess they kept their promise (the next day).

“I’m still not afraid, more resolved,” Vega said. “They are the ones who showed their inhumanity and disregard for everything that our country is supposed to represent."

‘I’M SURPRISED PEOPLE ARE NOT RISING UP’

“They do whatever the hell they want to do here in Memphis.  I’m surprised people are not rising up.

“I am a veteran, a grandmother, a former journalist. I do believe some of those patriotic things that we talk about. That’s why I fight so hard. I believe in that ideal.

“That’s how Memphis treats its women and veterans, and on the eve of the anniversary of MLK’s assassination. All the pomp and circumstance, and where have we gone; what have we accomplished 50 years later?

Officer yanks Zyanya Cruz by the arm

“How dare they put a Jumbotron in front of the Civil Rights Museum while they are violating peoples’ civil rights a few blocks away? The city should be ashamed of itself.”

Of the nine persons arrested, one pleaded no contest for “time served” – his one night in jail – and paid costs. Seven others saw their next court date set for later in April or May.

DID ‘WASHINGTON’ TARGET LATINO REPORTER?

While local police seemed to be going after well-known and often spied-upon activists, the Multi-Agency Gang Unit and Organized Crime Unit detectives and officers seemed to have one more target: the Latino journalist. Although Duran was shooting video of the action and reporting – you know, doing his job and not stealing a bicycle or punching anyone’s nose -- he was grabbed off the sidewalk as Vega and other female “ICE prisoners” shouted to police, “He’s a reporter!”

Duran’s family paid his $100 cash bond at 9 that night, but he was not released like the others who had made bond and gotten out in the wee hours of April 4. A native of El Salvador, Duran allegedly was not a citizen or resident alien. Duran’s case was reset until the following day, April 5, and it was dismissed – nolle prosequi – with no costs.

Good news, right? Not so fast. It’s the Trump era.

Later, courthouse sources told us that Duran’s capture came from “the top” – meaning high up in the Trump administration. Sure enough, not only had Duran been targeted, two ICE agents were in the courtroom waiting for him. They did not grab him in front of media or supporters as some have reported. But after he was seized by ICE during jail release-processing out of the public eye, they skipped over two stages of detention – one temporary center in Memphis and one 30 miles away in Mason, Tennessee – and sent him directly to LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana, about 350 miles away and the last stop before deportation.

POLICE TRAP: PERFECT STORM

The difficulty for Duran and other First Amendment practitioners was they were marching into a three-part, perfect storm of a police trap:

1—This was supposed to be Tourism Week, and like homeless people, demonstrators were not what City Hall wanted visitors to see. What a great idea if we just rounded up activists to get them off the streets?

Further, outside law enforcement, including the FBI, was in town. It is likely that the extra law enforcement presence, surveillance and tension heightened the likelihood of a confrontation. 

2—Activists had promoted on Facebook a “Rolling Block Party” to occur April 3, the day before the 50^th anniversary of MLK’s murder in Memphis. The only time and location widely publicized on social media was 2:01 p.m. at 201 Poplar, the address of the county courthouse and jail. Since police and fusion centers now monitor social media of known activists, law enforcement was waiting for them en masse.

There were also limited posts on social media about the "Rolling Block Party" taking the fun to Graceland at 4:44 p.m. and the Hernando-DeSoto Bridge at 6:30 on April 3. 

Activists turn out at FedEx -- with purple airplane tails in the background

3—Earlier in the day, the “rolling block party” rolled into a four-lane street just outside the FedEx terminal and stopped their cars.  Partiers jumped out, danced to music coordinated on every car radio and held signs with messages like, “Things are not OK,” “Poorest City in the Nation,” and “Economic Apartheid: Profits to the Top, Misery to the Bottom.” 

The police showed up, but they stood back. They had never seen anything quite like this and were unsure what to do. In fact, they told organizers that they were waiting on command staff to show up.  Eventually, after they threatened to arrest the drivers, the block party rolled away.

Standing down was a wise move as there were no arrests, and no one got hurt. Motorists were inconvenienced – some were perturbed and some were amused -- for about 25 minutes.

Nonetheless, no doubt there was some sentiment among MPD command staff and maybe at City Hall that these people had made us look bad – at the edge of the city’s corporate crown jewel, with purple FedEx airplane tails in the background, and smack dab in the middle of MLK50 week. These activists, who were more aligned with MLK values than the politicians who waxed and waned over the civil rights martyr at banquets, had telegraphed their next blow, and it was at the epi-center of criminal justice, or injustice, in this city.

Vega (light blue top) watches police arrest an action marshal

Officers were waiting for them, and they were not going to get fooled again. In fact, it was not uniformed officers waiting in the street at 201 Poplar – it was officers in TACT gear, some or all part of a Multi-Agency Gang Unit which operates to disrupt concerted efforts in the community – which apparently includes First Amendment practitioners as well as Vice Lords, Ghost Mob and Gangster Disciples.

“What they did was absolutely egregious,” said Vega, who was able to press out a laugh amid the injustice and outrage over the seizing of a journalist. As she pushed up her sleeve to demonstrate:

“I came to Memphis, and all I got was this big bruise.”

Filmmaker Gary Moore operates the educational non-profit Citizens Media Resource and Moore Media Strategies consultancy.

Free Screening March 30 at U of M Law School

Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will launch their “As a Matter of Law” series and commemorate MLK50 by screening the Memphis-made documentary Who Will Watch the Watchers? March 30.

“As a Matter of Law: Who Will Watch the Watchers? Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Gary Moore” will begin at 6 p.m. at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, 1 North Front Street, in the Wade Auditorium.

Who Will Watch the Watchers? tracks the struggles of citizens who were arrested for filming police, then sought justice at City Hall in an election year. The film covers 21^st Century hot topics such as citizen videos of police shootings, Black Lives Matter, the police-community divide and the condition of the First Amendment in the Trump era.  The feature-length documentary presents something of a case study in grass roots organizing as citizens sought to bring back the Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB).

The screening is free of charge and open to the public. It is sponsored by Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Project Mass Incarceration and the Black Law Students Association.

“TACDL is starting a series of presentations called ‘As a Matter of Law,’ which will focus on specifics of defending criminal matters, examining issues that might arise in that process, and we want this film to serve as the subject of the first presentation,” said David “Hawk” Allen, president of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Memphis Law Chapter.

Who Will Watch the Watchers? world-premiered in Los Angeles last fall at the Justice on Trial Film Festival.

The film follows the Memphis United coalition, which fought for police accountability and the revival of the Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board in 2015 and which rode a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs in their campaign. A Memphis police officer shot and killed unarmed back-seat passenger Darrius Stewart in the middle of the movement, and organizers and others were targeted in 2017 in a “black list” of persons who were required to be escorted at City Hall.

Paul Garner, organizing director at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, led the movement after being arrested for attempting to film police outside Manna House homeless refuge Oct. 21, 2013. Four days later citizens filmed police arresting two persons and breaking up a Trolley Night hip-hop cypher on South Main Street.

In addition to dealing with First Amendment issues, the film relates the Fourth Amendment and the landmark Supreme Court case out of Memphis, Tennessee vs. Garner, in how law enforcement officers may or may not use force to stop fleeing suspects.

Freedom Rider Rip Patton narrates the film trailer and the opening and closing sequences of the film.

Moore Media & Entertainment also produced the comedy short, “The Suburban Itch,” and is producing a documentary on the removal of Confederate statues in Memphis and other cities.

Link to film trailer:

https://vimeo.com/153546099

Link to film poster sized for Internet:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18020pOMfhYegZD5QVw_qcXYyNaVt_KJU

Link to Memphis Flyer story:

https://www.memphisflyer.com/FilmTVEtcBlog/archives/2017/09/27/memphis-social-justice-documentary-who-will-watch-the-watchers-premieres-at-university-of-memphis