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...
Six White former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the "Goon Squad" have pleaded guilty over aracist assaulton 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 cha...
"The public is now well aware of the heinous attack inflicted on two Black men by Rankin County deputies who called themselves the 'Goon Squad,'" said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a statement. "Those officers have since been convicted and sentenced, but we are launching this civil...
Prosecutors say some of the officers nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” because of their willingness to use excessive force and cover up attacks. Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey called the crimes by his deputies the worst case of police brutality he had ever seen. For months, Bailey s...
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 torturing and sexually abu...