It's their big day getting their pictures in all the newspapers and they can't even smile for the camera.
Posted on 04/10/2024 8:56:42 AM PDT by Coronal
The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges.
The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August.
McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to 15 years in federal penitentiaries. The sentences will be served concurrently with their federal sentences, and all were ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.
Prosecutors said the white officers had nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” due to their willingness to use excessive force and cover up their brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.
In the attack, the men verbally abused Jenkins and Parker, beat them, assaulted them with stun guns and a sex toy, and one of them shot Jenkins in the mouth in a "mock execution."
The men had also pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the assault and were sentenced to federal prison terms of 10 to 40 years.
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lol.
Boo!
I’m kind of surprised “qualified immunity” didn’t protect them. Oh,looks like the victims were black. That explains everything.
Not to mention he was online being joshed about by an undercover Fed allegedly
Over ten so far last mass shooters have non binary in there somewhere
I hope the jury was fair and not biased. Biased juries suck worse than perpetrators because we expect them to be wholesome, by law.
Pretty dumb
It seems just to me
We are the Goon Squad and we’re coming to town....Beep Beep!
“Qualified” being the key word here. It’s not absolute. Qualified immunity doesn’t extend to what these guys did.
Funny how they felt it was worth mentioning in the headline that the perps were black but left out that some of the Goon Squaddies also were black
I hate journalism today. Most news reports don’t tell the whole story. Then, you have to search and search for more details.
It turns out, three of the cops were sentenced for torturing and assaulting THREE men within a month’s time - the two black men in the house and a white man in a traffic stop.
The white victim stayed anonymous at first, but he stepped forward later. He also said they sexually assaulted him.
Here’s an older article with more details:
How did so many psychopaths end up in one police department?
It's their big day getting their pictures in all the newspapers and they can't even smile for the camera.
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