3rd Mississippi "Goon Squad" officer sentenced for torturing Black menFormer Rankin County sheriff's deputy Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison Wednesday. He is the third of six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to subjecting two Black men to torture ...
On Tuesday, two fellow officers weresentenced to years in prison. Former sheriff's deputy Hunter Elward received just over a 20-year sentence, while Jeffrey Middleton, another former deputy and the leader of the "Goon Squad" that abused the two men, was handed a 17.5-year prison sen...
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the "Goon Squad" were prosecuted for tortu...
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The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the "Goon Squad" —pleaded guiltylast year to a series of charge...