Posted on 08/14/2023 7:52:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers have pleaded guilty to charges accusing them of torturing and abusing two black men during a raid.
Members of the self-called 'Goon Squad' each carried a coin with the name emblazoned on one side and the other with Rankin County Sheriff's Office's badge.
Lieutenant Jeffrey Middleton appeared to be the ringleader of the group, with his coin embossed with 'Lt Middleton's Goon Squad'.
Five other deputies for the Sheriff's Office, and one from the Richland Police Department, have been charged with conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice.
Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Middleton and Daniel Opdyke, and ex-police officer Joshua Hartfield, were all charged in relation to the assault of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January.
Elward was charged with home invasion and aggravated assault for shoving a gun in the mouth of Jenkins and pulling the trigger - in what prosecutors called a 'mock execution'.
They are accused of assaulting them with sex toys, firearms, stun guns, milk, eggs, alcohol and chocolate syrup on January 24.
The cops are potentially facing a maximum combined sentence of 641 years and two life sentences in prison for state and federal charges, as well as a combined $12.25 million in fines.
Dedmon was charged with home invasion after kicking in a door, with McAlpin, Middleton, Opdyke and Hartfield each facing an additional charge of first-degree obstruction of justice.
Middleton admitted in court that he was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 2007 for hitting/killing a man.
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Of course.
Whites are murdered every day, by blacks, in the US, but it rarely even makes the local news, but they’ll run anything to keep the race hustlers occupied and Whites on the defense.
It is interesting that the comments at Daily Mail are quite consistent in seeing these criminals treated as criminals. "Under the color of law" is a phrase which should be better understood and more often said.
While some might want to make this into a 'race' issue, as you CORRECTLY observe, it is one of people acting in a "sick and twisted bunch."
One can cite other instances in other nations and at other times when other races and other cultures exhibit exactly the same and worse. It's not about race. It is about the "twisted" and perverse among us. Everywhere.
Sounds like a bunch of homos.
Good people don’t want to be cops anymore, so this is what you get.
I have two words for the Daily Mail: The Met.
And not just in this country.
“Your Christian tripe isn’t going to work on me.”
There once was a man who was in charge of a hundred foot soldiers and their support. His rank was Centurion. If someone went AWOL, he’d have to pick out a man from every 10 and have him executed. If someone ran from battle, the same. He probably presided over a thousand crucifixions. He’d seen it all. This was a hard man.
Yet one day he was ordered to take Jesus out of the city and crucify him and two others.
Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” (Matt. 27:45-54).
Here in Memphis, we haven’t forgotten.
They were targeted after a white neighbor complained that two black men were staying at the home with a white woman.
Parker was a childhood friend of the homeowner, Kristi Walley, who has been paralyzed since she was 15 - and he was helping to care for her.
In January, the officers entered a property in Mississippi without a warrant, and handcuffed Jenkins and Parker before assaulting them.
McAlpin was informed of the alleged break-in by the two men, and asked Demon to investigate. He then sent a message to officers in the 'Goon Squad' saying: 'Are y'all available for a mission?'
He added that they might have to 'work easy' - meaning he was advising to knock on the door rather than kick it down because of security cameras on the property.
Patrol deputy Daniel Opdyke texted back a gif of a baby crying, with officers kicking in the back doors of the house which were not surrounded by cameras.
Dedmon asked the men where their drugs were, and when the victims denied having any narcotics, he shot a bullet into the wall, demanding that they confess.
Officials say that they mocked them with racial slurs, including 'n*****' and 'monkey', following a 90-minute torture session.
My remark is that, as was previously stated, they "acting in a "sick and twisted bunch."
Is there a racial component to this? Without a doubt. But one finds stories with the "inversion" of racial identities, and I would say the same. Criminals acting in a sick and twisted" manner.
Some whites act this way. Some blacks act this way. No surprise there. So "race" is not the significant identifier. Sick and twisted criminality is, no matter the race, religion, ethnic origin, etc.
“Notice how the Memphis 5 have completely disappeared from the radar.”
It just seems that way because their prosecution was in the discovery stage. That ends with a court hearing on August 18th after which we’ll surely hear about them again.
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