Months after a drug raid left a Black man with a gunshot wound to the face, the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi have announced that five of its deputies have been fired or resigned from the department.
Michael Corey Jenkins stands outside Taylor Hill Church in Braxton, Miss., March 18, 2023.Months after a January drug raid that left a Black man with a gunshot wound to the face, the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi announced Tuesday that five of its deputies have been fired or resigned from the department.
During a drug raid in Rankin County, Mississippi, 32-year-old Michael Corey Jenkins suffered a bullet wound to the face.“We understand that the alleged actions of these deputies has eroded the public’s trust in our department,” Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said in a statement on Tuesday. “Rest assured that we will work diligently to restore that trust.”
Jenkins, Parker and their attorneys are hoping criminal charges will follow quickly behind the deputies' termination.
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