Mississippi sheriff rolls out reforms after deputies and an officer plead guilty to torturing 2 Black men
Source: CNN
Ryan Young Pamela Kirkland
By Ryan Young, Pamela Kirkland and Chelsea Bailey, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 5:59 PM EST, Fri December 1, 2023
On a Tuesday night in January, five sheriff’s deputies from Rankin County, Mississippi, and a police officer from a neighboring department forced their way into the home where Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins were living in Braxton, Mississippi.
The six White law enforcement officers called themselves the “Goon Squad,” according to a lawsuit filed this summer, “because of their willingness to use excessive force and not to report it.”
That night, Parker and Jenkins would become the “Squad’s” latest victims.
The two Black men were tortured, tased, and say they were sexually assaulted for hours. Jenkins and Parker said they were called the N-word and other racial slurs throughout the beating.
Then a deputy put a gun in Jenkins mouth and pulled the trigger, the lawsuit says.
The bullet lacerated his tongue, broke his jaw and then exited out of Jenkins’ neck, according to the lawsuit. He later told CNN officers left him lying in a pool of his blood.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/01/us/rankin-county-goon-squad-sheriff-reforms-reaj/index.html
Earlier article:
6 ex-officers, some of whom called themselves ‘The Goon Squad,’ plead guilty to state charges in torture of 2 Black men
Dakin Andone
By Dakin Andone, CNN
5 minute read
Updated 4:36 PM EDT, Mon August 14, 2023
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty Monday to all state charges against them stemming from the torture and abuse this year of two Black men, one of whom was shot in the mouth.
The former officers pleaded guilty August 3 to federal charges in the case, in which US prosecutors said the former officers kicked down the door of a home in Braxton, Mississippi, where the Black men were living and assaulted them for two hours.
Their pleas Monday came after the former officers – five of them deputies for the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, the sixth an officer for the Richland Police Department – pleaded guilty this month to federal charges in connection to the same January incident, which the victims have claimed was motivated by their race.
Former deputies Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and ex-police officer Joshua Hartfield were each charged with conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, according to a news release from the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.
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More:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/us/mississippi-goon-squad-cops-guilty-plea/index.html
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BTW: that first guy looks like the star on Pawn Stars
How did they think they were going to get away with shooting a guy with a gun in his mouth? Couldn't exactly blame that on suicide by cop. Is the coroner in cahoots with them?
And sexually assaulted for hours...... they were obviously getting off on it.
Lock them up in general population.
