Summary
- The US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department for engaging in excessive force and racial discrimination.
- Five Rankin sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and assaulting two Black men, while another officer from the Richland police department was also convicted.
- The officers tortured the victims with beatings, stun guns, and a sex toy before one victim was shot in the mouth.
- The justice department is looking into whether there is a pattern of racially discriminatory policing practices within the Rankin county sheriff’s department.