Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...
The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...
Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...
Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following ...
The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...
Rankin County ... The Mississippi sheriff has overseen a department in which five deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. They called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness ...
The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...
Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.