Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...
Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...
The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...
Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.
Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...
One of the Mississippi “Goon Squad” officers who are responsible ... guilty to the assault of Jenkins and Parker were Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke, and ...
The racist attack included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot ...
"We will continue this transparency and will fully cooperate with all aspects of this investigation," the sheriff's office ...
The Justice Department will seek to determine if the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern of violence, ...
At least several of the defendants were part of a group of deputies who called themselves the “Goon Squad” because ... sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon ...