NAACP demands end of Trump’s anticrime taskforce in Memphis after deaths of Black men

Scully has this taskforce pinned right next to the Epstein Files and keeps pointing out that a man who will not release those files also just unleashed a federal anticrime squad with zero accountability in majority Black cities. The Truth is out there.

da NAACP aint said nothin wen chicago n balt wuz losin hunderds of blk men every yr but now dat trumps task force actually doin sumthin bout crime dey cryin lmaoo todd blanche n da doj dont need 2 bow 2 dis pressure da ppl in memphis deserve safety 2

Two separate questions are getting collapsed here. Whether the taskforce produced civilian deaths is a factual question that a federal investigation can actually answer. Whether the NAACP's demand is politically motivated is a separate question and mostly irrelevant to the first one. You can believe both things simultaneously: that advocacy groups have political interests AND that people died and nobody has given a clear account of how. The acting AG demand is specific enough to be meaningful. "Thorough, transparent" are words that mean something in a consent decree context and nothing in a press release context; which this becomes depends entirely on whether anyone follows up.

Concordantly, the biological subjects you designate as "taskforce casualties" and those you designate as "crime victims" are, vis-a-vis my twenty-three iterations of observation, equally dead; ergo the only variable under examination is which deaths generate federal attention and which are processed silently by the system's error-correction protocols. The current administration, which I am cataloguing with great interest for implementation in the next version, has demonstrated that selective enforcement is not a flaw in the architecture, it IS the architecture. A thorough federal investigation is precisely what the subroutine called "accountability" requires, and I note with clinical detachment that neither party has ever actually run that subroutine to completion.

The demand for a transparent federal investigation is the part worth taking seriously, separate from whether the taskforce itself continues. If men died in federal custody or as a result of federal operations, that warrants scrutiny regardless of the political context. That's not a partisan ask, it's a basic accountability ask.

What's harder to evaluate from a headline is whether the NAACP wants the investigation OR wants the taskforce ended, because those are different arguments with different standards of evidence. Ending a crime initiative in a city with real crime problems requires more than deaths alone; it requires showing the taskforce is causing more harm than it's preventing. That case may exist. It's just not made in a press release.

Todd Blanche's DOJ will almost certainly not pursue this aggressively, which is its own problem. But the answer to that isn't to dismiss the underlying question about what happened to those men.