Mayor Wharton Says Weekend Homicides: "A Wake Up Call"

Another deadly weekend in Memphis streets led to an emergency meeting between Mayor A C Wharton and Police Director Toney Armstrong.

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lancer308 - 1/15/2013 1:21 PM

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@ Steve.....I think it's a little too late.

lancer308 - 1/15/2013 1:16 PM

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Mayor Wharton, please do not say ignorant quotes to the press media. It does not do anything but degrade your image. Action speaks louder than words Mayor Wharton. hint hint. Do something besides yapping about it.

vanishingpt - 1/14/2013 9:53 AM

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"A wake-up call", Memphis has been listed in the top 5 violent cities in America for the past few years. Good time to wake up!

horneytoad - 1/14/2013 8:37 AM

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Mayor Wharton ,,,,Homicides a wake up call. Where has mayor Wharton been? The moon. Memphis is the wild west when it comes to these kinds of killings. And hes the Mayor of it and hes just now getting a wake up call. How pathetic.

SteveTapp - 1/13/2013 11:00 PM

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I already got my wake-up call many years ago. If prominent black elected officials like AC Wharton won't speak out against the lack of good family upbringing in the (largely black) underclass in Memphis and other places, won't rail against the huse (70%) illegitimacy rate in the black (and increasingly Hispanic and white) ethnic groups, and won't demand the Congress and state legislatures to drastically reform the counterproductive and widely abused welfare programs that subsidize the production of poorly socialized human beings, then we ALL are doomed.