A civil suit can continue against a former Mississippi deputy who pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to torturing two Black men and shooting one of them in the mouth, with the suit alleging the deputy is also responsible for the death of another Black man in 2021.
In a Wednesday ruling, Rankin County Circuit Judge Brad Mills allowed claims of excessive force to move forward against Hunter Elward, a member of a group of corrupt law officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad,” a moniker they adopted because of their penchant for violent tactics.
believes that Elward and a current deputy not linked to Elward’s crimes are responsible for the death of her son, Damien Cameron.said in an interview. “I lost Damien because of those officers.” Cameron, who had a history of mental illness, was accused of vandalizing a neighbor’s home in 2021 while living with his grandparents. Elward responded to the scene and chased Cameron inside his grandparents’ home. He shocked Cameron with a stun gun and punched him with a closed fist while deputy Luke Stickman kneeled on Cameron’s neck even as he cried out that he couldn’t breathe,Cameron later died at the hospital, and an autopsy report listed his cause of death as “undetermined.
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