Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed 'Goon Squad,' were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing two Black men.
The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the 'Goon Squad' — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for torturing two Black men.
The Rankin County Sheriff's Department made national headlines when five former deputies, along with one former Richland, Mississippi, police officer, were accused of torturing two Black men — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker — in January of 2023.All six former officers pleaded guilty to a series of state and federal charges, admitting to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing Jenkins and Parker for hours, going so far as to shoot one of them in the mouth.
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