On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/us/mississippi-white-officers-torture-black-men-federal-charge
6 Comments
GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
What the fuck.
aaron_griffin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Rekorse@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
They are awaiting sentencing according to the article. Pleaded guilty to a bunch of felonies each of them.
Can't say yet that the punishment will be appropriate though cause we don't know it yet.
zaph@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
So far everything I've read is saying 5 years. Two 5 year sentences running concurrently.
aaron_griffin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
livus@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
I hope they're not still getting paid since they are no longer police officers.
aaron_griffin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
xc2215x@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Very sad to see this for these black men. Not that shocking though.
livus@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
The state case sounds very weak given the heinous acts they all committed. I hope the civil case does better.