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In Mississippi, six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between 10 and 40 years in prison for raiding a home and torturing, shooting and sexually abusing two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, in January 2023. The six former deputies, all of whom are white, called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four violent attacks on Black men since 2019. Two of the men attacked and tortured by the group subsequently died. To discuss the case and the verdict, we're joined by Eddie Parker and attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker. "Never have we seen this many police officers sentenced to this kind of time in one week," says Shabazz, who calls the verdict "historic." Jenkins, Parker and Shabazz are currently suing the Rankin County Sheriff's Department over its track record of civil rights violations and racist targeting of Black residents.
After this and the secret mass grave recently found behind the police station near Jackson, what's next for Mississippi?
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Did we ever find out the function of the mass graves? Was it organ harvesting?
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>>479962yeah i'm wondering about that too.
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>>479962I believe that court case is still ongoing.
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>goon squad
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>>479973maybe they were self-aware on some level ?
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>>479974Probably, yes.
That's a weird habit of certain kinds of tremendously evil people. Like the Ku Klux Klan with the whole
dressing as ghosts and burning crosses thing, La Cagoule in France, the Romanian Iron Guard, Haiti's Tonton Macoute, etc.
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Officials in a Mississippi county settle lawsuit filed by 2 Black men tortured by deputiesRankin County officials announced last week that they had settled a lawsuit filed by Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker—who were brutalized by sheriff’s deputies in 2023—for $2.5 million.
https://apnews.com/us-news/mississippi-michael-jenkins-eddie-terrell-parker-lawsuits-law-enforcement-7173cee79fcbcbd89216a6fc03088378