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 ...
Those charged in the case are former Rankin County Sheriff's Department employees Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield. The documents identified Elward as the person who shot Jenkins, and Opdyke and...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a...
Clarke said the department's decision to launch the investigation was not triggered by a particular incident, though she acknowledged the infamous January 2023 home invasion assault by five former Rankin County and a sixth former narcotics investigator from another ...
Two remaining officers, former deputy Brett McAlpin and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, are scheduled to be sentenced by Lee on Thursday. Former Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton.Rogelio V. Solis / AP ...