All six of the former officers, members of “The Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty last year to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing the Black men with a stun gun, a sex toy an…
Michael Corey Jenkins, right, follows a friend as he enters the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, March 20, 2024, for sentencing on the third of the six former Mississippi Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on him and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker in 2023.JACKSON, Miss.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee said Opdyke may not have been fully aware of what being a member of the Goon Squad entailed when Middleton asked him to join, but he did know it involved using excessive force. “You were not a passive observer, you actively participated in that brutal attack,” Lee said.” Last March, months before federal prosecutors announced charges in August, an investigation by The Associated Press linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.
Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns. Dedmon and Opdyke assaulted them with a sex toy.
Dedmon and Opdyke, like Elward, also are being sentenced after pleading guilty to their roles in an assault on a white man on Dec. 4, 2022 — weeks before Jenkins and Parker were tortured. Prosecutors revealed the victim’s identity Tuesday as Alan Schmidt. Reynolds said Opdyke held Schmidt down until Dedmon arrived, but didn’t beat him or sexually assault him.
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