The six former officers now face additional state charges in Mississippi, including assault, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Six White former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men in a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth.
The civil rights charges come after an Associated Press investigation linked the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. “The actions of these defendants not only caused significant physical, emotional and psychological harm to the victims, but it also caused harm to the entire community who feel that they can’t trust the police officers who are supposed to serve them," Clarke said, adding that the misconduct leaves “other officers to try to mend the communal wounds inflicted by these defendants.”
Dedmon, Elward and Opdyke also pleaded guilty to three federal felony offenses for a separate incident. Prosecutors said that on Dec. 4, Dedmon beat a White man, used a Taser on him and fired a gun near his head to coerce a confession, while Elward and Opdyke failed to intervene. Officers used racist slurs against the two men during the raid and “warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ‘their side’ of the Pearl River — areas with higher concentrations of Black residents,” the documents say.
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