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How 6 Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie...
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoIn Rankin County, the brutality visited upon Jenkins and Parker was not a botched police operation,...
Rankin County sheriff's deputies allegedly shot and waterboarded a Black man. Now the FBI is...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe DOJ investigation of the Rankin County, Mississippi, sheriff's office was prompted by the...
Mississippi Dad Who Survived Sadistic ‘Goon Squad’ Attack Calls for More Prison Time
Capital B via Yahoo News· 2 months agoEddie Terrell Parker woke up in a Mississippi jail cell last January with an unfamiliar taste of...
Black man shot in the mouth by Mississippi deputy to file federal civil rights lawsuit
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo men — one of whom was shot in the mouth by a law enforcement officer — announced on Tuesday that...
Mississippi sheriff rolls out reforms after deputies and an officer plead guilty to torturing 2...
CNN via AOL· 7 months agoOn a Tuesday night in January, five sheriff’s deputies from Rankin County, Mississippi, and a police...
‘Goon Squad’ officers who tortured Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sentenced in state...
theGrio via AOL· 2 months agoRankin County Circuit Judge Steve Ratcliff on Wednesday gave the men yearslong state sentences that...
Mississippi sheriff aims to avoid liability from federal lawsuit over torture of Black men
Associated Press via AOL· 8 months agoThe Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former deputies pleaded guilty to a long list...
Mississippi deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBRANDON, Miss. — Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by the...
2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences
Associated Press via AOL· 3 months agoTwo Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal...
The 'Goon Squad' Officers Were Sentenced To Prison — But Many People Want More
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCivil lead counsel Malik Shabazz (center) speaks to reporters following the sentencing of a fourth...