Sentencing Postponed Again For ‘Goon Squad’ Officers Who Tortured Black Men
A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men.
A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men.
The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department is undergoing policy changes after five deputies pleaded guilty for the beating and sexual assault of two Black men.
Hinds County buried John David Hankins in a pauper’s field without notifying his family—the third such case NBC News has identified since October.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey should resign, Democratic candidate for Mississippi Attorney General Greta Kemp Martin said at a press conference in Tupelo, Miss., on Sept. 22.
“I know, the song is ‘art,’ and art is supposed to activate the right brain, the one that doesn’t analyze and judge, but here are some left-brain questions: Which small town? And where? In what time of history? And who exactly is ‘our own?'” Richard Conville writes.
Three national pathologists say Mississippi’s chief medical examiner should have labeled the cause of death as homicide for Damien Cameron, a Black Braxton, Miss., resident whose mother alleges that two white Rankin County deputies knelt on his back for over 20 minutes, causing his death in July 2021.
The torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker in Rankin County cannot be ignored “if fundamental justice is at all a goal,” Russ Latino writes.
Six white Rankin County, Miss., law enforcement officers accused of beating and assaulting two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, pleaded guilty to 13 federal civil rights charges in federal court Thursday.
The Richland Police Department has fired Officer Joshua Hartfield for allegedly participating in the beating and torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker.
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