r/worldnewsvideo • u/real-m-f-in-talk Worldly š • Aug 04 '23
News Report š Lawsuit: 6 ex-Mississippi officers called "Goon Squad", pleaded guilty to torture and sexual assault of 2 men. It ended when officer shot man in mouth; tried to burn victim's clothes and plant meth.
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u/Sharticus123 Aug 04 '23
But itās just a few bad applesā¦
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u/longaaaaa Aug 04 '23
Dear lord, what words can even be assigned to something like this. Our society is really sick
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u/tipyourwaitresstoo Aug 16 '23
Racism is one word that fits. Iām sure we can come up with others.
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u/andre3kthegiant Aug 04 '23
All of the Law officers in that entire county need to be investigated immediately. Take all the cell phone of police, sheriffs, and the DAās office.
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u/Sharticus123 Aug 04 '23
Yep. No way 6 fucking cops are doing this shit without the entire department knowing.
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u/Consistent-River4229 Aug 04 '23
If the entire department was bad we wouldn't be hearing about this. I absolutely do not like cops but I have to say whoever investigated these guys did a good job. This is one of the few times we didn't see a huge cover up. It can't be easy going against a gang of corrupt jerks to do the right thing.
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u/1965BenlyTouring150 Aug 04 '23
The feds did the investigation. If there was a whistle blower in the department that led to the Federal investigation, there might be one good apple in the county's law enforcement apparatus.
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u/MuuaadDib Aug 04 '23
No one accused them of being competent or smart, just a big ole bag of stupid shit with badges. It's not just this department, this job attracts all the violent hate-filled losers.
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u/HairlessHoudini Aug 05 '23
It was the federal government not the local cops that brought this to light
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u/Consistent-River4229 Aug 05 '23
The federal government is just another kind of cop. The same with NCIS or ATF.
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u/HornetKick Aug 25 '23
do the right thing
Why are you being downvoted; are the six cops on this thread?
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u/Ieatsushiraw Aug 05 '23
Oh I do like that idea. Give up your cell phones and PCs or get fired and still be investigated anyway
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Aug 04 '23
Why the redacted documents?
It can't be anything to do with National Security, so surely full disclosure should have been forthcoming?
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Aug 04 '23
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u/real-m-f-in-talk Worldly š Aug 04 '23
....and not even get identified.
they know other victims are out there but they don't care, [optics] plus those 6 cops aren't the only ones who knew about their behavior.
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Aug 04 '23
Avoiding 'Trial by Media'?
Maybe that is behind the redactions. (In this day and age, 'innocent until proven guilty' is still as relevant as it always has been. But with short social media attention spans, minds can be made up long before a trial even takes place. (And retained long after many have lost interest.))
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u/peacelovecookies Aug 13 '23
And theyāve all pled guilty. Their names are public.
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Aug 13 '23
But they hadn't when the redacted documents were released several months ago.
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u/peacelovecookies Aug 14 '23
Right, but the person was asking why havenāt they identified them and I was just letting them know that they have.
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u/peacelovecookies Aug 13 '23
Iāve read the names of the cops in articles already. Theyāve all plead guilty. Their names are public.
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u/drunk_funky_chipmunk Aug 04 '23
I think because itās a current case. Weāll I hope so at least, those cops deserve to be outed as racist assholes.
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u/abruzzo79 Aug 04 '23 edited Aug 04 '23
Look at the departmentās reviews on Google. There are some going back as far as 5 years.
Edit: also look up Damien Cameron.
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u/renniechops Aug 04 '23
The cops down here are like something outta an Elmore Leonard pulp book
Donāt ever talk to any of them, theyāre all blood thirsty sadists
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u/Borsenven Aug 04 '23
Most vile news stories I've heard. It's headlining newspapers in France.
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u/drgonzo311 Aug 04 '23
Here in America stories like these are almost daily. Can I live with you š
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u/dcd120 Aug 04 '23
All sheriffs departments think they can operate however they want with no oversight. itās time to end all sheriffs departments gangs in this country and jail itās violent gang members.
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u/MrsCCRobinson96 Aug 04 '23
Jesus!! At this point, it's not just a bad few apples it's a whole orchard of bad apples!
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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 Aug 04 '23
Probably a bad sign that your police self identify as āthe Goon Squad.ā
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u/Life-Celebration-747 Aug 04 '23
I wonder how those cops would feel if someone did that to their family members?
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u/Stannis2024 Aug 04 '23
Raping more people??? I'll check that off my Trans people Vs other people bingo card.
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Aug 06 '23
I still think it's funny that they claim rapists will pretend to be trans to get into women's bathrooms. As if someone would be thinking "I want to go kidnap someone, oh but I can't go in there, sign says I'm not allowed."Very early in the controversy, a number of them insinuated that if they had the opportunity as a kid to pretend to be trans to go in the women's restroom, they would. As some kind of argument against us tranz. That the straight white men with power are sexual predators. lmao
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u/RobiArts Aug 04 '23
A few RICO indictments would look quite tasty here. How are departments like this NOT classed as organized crime at this point?
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u/Thetruthislikepoetry Aug 04 '23
Iām sure all the good cops will put an end to all this unlawful activity by bad cops.
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Aug 05 '23
"who are you gonna call of someone breaks into your house?" Another burglar would be the safer choice.
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u/telephonic1892 Aug 05 '23
Mississippi is the most racist backward state in the USA, it's stuck in the 1930's there, Jim Crow still rules and they still practice sundown towns where blacks are not allowed out after sundown.
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u/cubedtothex Aug 14 '23
Anonymous no more. May they rot forever: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/us/mississippi-white-officers-torture-black-men-federal-charge/index.html
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u/CantStopPoppin šSourcerš šæ PopPopšæ Aug 04 '23
A little more than six months after the racist attack on Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, six former officers pleaded guilty on Thursday.
The officers included Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke of the Rankin County Sheriffās Department and Joshua Hartfield, a Richland police officer. Their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
They pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy against rights, obstructions of justice, deprivation of rights under color of law, discharge of a firearm under a crime of violence, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The Mississippi attorney generalās office announced Thursday it had filed state charges against the men including assault, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Federal court records detail how they burst into a home without a warrant, handcuffed Jenkins and Parker, assaulted them with a sex toy and beat Parker with wood and a metal sword. They poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces and then forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess.
Then one of them put a gun in Jenkinsā mouth and fired.
As Jenkins lay bleeding, they didnāt render medical aid. They knew the mission had gone too far and devised a hasty cover-up scheme that included a fictitious narcotics bust, a planted gun and drugs, stolen surveillance footage and threats.
The deputies were under the watch of Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey, who called it the worst episode of police brutality he has seen in his career.
Law enforcement misconduct in the U.S. has come under increased scrutiny, largely focused on how Black people are treated by the police. The 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police ignited calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms and a reassessment of American race relations. The January beating death of Tyre Nichols by five Black members of a special police squad in Memphis, Tennessee, led to a probe of similar units nationwide.
In Rankin County, the brutality visited upon Jenkins and Parker was not a botched police operation, but an assembly of rogue officers āwho tortured them all under the authority of a badge, which they disgraced,ā U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca said.
The county is just east of the state capital, Jackson, home to one of the highest percentages of Black residents of any major U.S. city. A towering granite-and-marble monument topped by a Confederate soldier stands across the street from the Rankin County sheriffās office.
The officers warned Jenkins and Parker to āstay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ātheir sideā of the Pearl River,ā court documents say, referencing an area with higher concentrations of Black residents.
Kristen Clarke, head of the Justice Departmentās Civil Rights Division, said the trauma āis magnified because the misconduct was fueled by racial bias and hatred.ā She mentioned another dark chapter in Mississippi law enforcement: the 1964 kidnapping and killing of three civil rights workers.
The violent police misconduct is a reminder āthere is still much to be done,ā Clarke said.
After Dedmon summoned āThe Goon Squad,ā the officers crept around the ranch-style home to avoid a surveillance camera. They kicked down the carport door and burst inside without a warrant.
Opdyke found a sex toy, which he mounted on a BB gun he also found, and forced into Parkerās mouth. Dedmon tried to sexually assault Jenkins with the toy. The officers repeatedly electrocuted the victims with stun guns to compare whose weapons were more powerful.
Elward forced Jenkins to his knees for a āmock executionā by firing without a bullet, but the gun discharged. The bullet lacerated Jenkinsā tongue and broke his jaw before exiting his neck.
As Jenkins bled on the floor, the officers devised a cover story for investigators: Elward brought Jenkins into a side room to conduct a staged drug bust over the phone and Jenkins reached for a gun when he was released from handcuffs.
Middleton offered to plant an unregistered firearm, but Elward said he would use the BB gun. Dedmon volunteered to plant methamphetamine he had received from an informant. Jenkins was charged with a felony as a result, but the charges were later dropped.
Opdyke put one of Elwardās shell casings in a water bottle and threw it into tall grass nearby. Hartfield removed the hard drive from the homeās surveillance system and later tossed it in a creek.
Afterward, McAlpin and Middleton made a promise: They would kill any of the officers who told the truth about what happened.
They kept quiet for months as pressure mounted from a Justice Department civil rights probe. An investigation by The Associated Press also linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.
One of the officers came forward in June, Bailey said.
Bailey on Thursday said he was lied to and first learned everything that happened to Jenkins and Parker when he read unsealed court documents. Some of the deputies, including McAlpin and Elward, had worked under Bailey for years and been sued several times for alleged misconduct.
The sheriff promised to implement a new body camera policy and said he was open to more federal oversight. He also called the officers ācriminals,ā echoing federal prosecutors.
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-guilty-pleas-civil-rights-e4937b4cd1d2ed2388b2fd1c3aeefcb9