{"id":74123,"date":"2026-05-28T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-memphis-crime-taskforce-accused-of-using-immense-force-in-intimidation-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:56:25","slug":"trumps-memphis-crime-taskforce-accused-of-using-immense-force-in-intimidation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-memphis-crime-taskforce-accused-of-using-immense-force-in-intimidation-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Memphis crime taskforce accused of using \u2018immense force\u2019 in intimidation campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: community observers claim agents have tailed cars, surveilled homes and even \u2018falsely arrested\u2019 someone<\/p>\n<p>An anti-crime taskforce ordered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> onto the streets of Memphis has been accused of targeting community observers with widespread intimidation including \u201cimmense force\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Agents have been \u201cretaliating against, intimidating, and harassing\u201d observers attempting to monitor the federal taskforce\u2019s activity, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana, which alleges that officials have tailed cars, surveilled homes and even \u201cfalsely arrested\u201d a community observer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/28\/trump-memphis-crime-taskforce\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: community observers claim agents have tailed cars, surveilled homes and even \u2018falsely arrested\u2019 someone An anti-crime taskforce ordered by Donald Trump onto the streets of Memphis has been accused of targeting community observers with widespread intimidation including \u201cimmense force\u201d. Agents have been \u201cretaliating against, intimidating, and harassing\u201d observers attempting to monitor the federal taskforce\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s Memphis crime taskforce accused of using \u2018immense force\u2019 in intimidation campaign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-memphis-crime-taskforce-accused-of-using-immense-force-in-intimidation-campaign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s Memphis crime taskforce accused of using \u2018immense force\u2019 in intimidation campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}