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 ...
Parker rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes, then stood up and left the courtroom before Opdyke finished speaking. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee said Opdyke may not have been fully aware of what being a member of the Goon Squad entailed when Middleton asked him to join...
Kristen Clarke, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said the trauma “is magnified because the misconduct was fueled by racial bias and hatred” that recalled that a sheriff’s deputy was also involved in one of Mississippi’s most n...
The six former law enforcement officers were convicted for their crimes, and received prison sentences ranging from 10 to 45 years. "Since the Goon Squad's sickening acts came to light, we have received reports of other instances indicating that this conduct w...