Court documents said the six White former law enforcement officers in Mississippi called themselves the 'Goon Squad' 'because of their willingness to use excessive force' and 'not to report it.'
Six White former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the"Goon Squad" have pleaded guilty over aon two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say. The civil rights charges were unsealed Thursday as the officers — five former Rankin County sheriff's deputies and an ex-Richland police officer — appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty.
The officers assaulted them with a sex object, beat them and used their stun guns repeatedly over a roughly 90-minute period. The episode culminated with one deputy placing a gun in Jenkins' mouth and firing, which cut his tongue, broke his jaw and exited out his neck, the court documents said.AP Photo/HG Biggs
The victims are identified only by their initials in the documents, but Jenkins and Parker have publicly discussed the episode. They filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Rankin County in June seeking $400 million in damages. The documents identified Elward as the person who shot Jenkins, and Opdyke and Dedmon as the ones who assaulted the two men with the sex object.Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey announced on June 27 that all five deputies involved in the Jan. 24 episode had beenFollowing the announcement, Malik Shabazz, an attorney representing Jenkins and Parker, celebrated the"long overdue" firing in a statement to CBS News.
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