Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins said they were often not believed when they tried, for months, to tell people about the grueling violence and torture they endured at the hands of six White law enforcement officers one night last year, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth. Details from the January 24, 2023, incident eventually came to light after the two men – both of whom are Black – filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in June. Many of the claims were later borne out by federal...
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the torture of two Black men. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hunter Elward on Tuesday, the first of six fo
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an hourslong attack that included beatings, repeated uses of stun []
Sentencing resumed in Jackson, Mississippi, for a group of six white former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to torture and assault of two Black men.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Last of six former Mississippi officers who tortured two Black men sentenced; ex-officer gets about 10 years in prison.
Two former Mississippi deputies were sentenced Tuesday for breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men inside. Hunter Elward was sentenced to nearly 20 years, while Jeffrey Middleton was given 17.5 years behind bars. Errol Barnett reports.
Two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies who were members of a group calling itself "the Goon Squad" have been handed lengthy prison sentences for their part in torturing two black men. Hunter Elward, 31, was jailed for 20 years, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years on Tuesday during back-to-back proceedings at a federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, according to the US Justice Department. They were two of six officers who burst into a house in Braxton, Mississippi,...
Six former Mississippi officers are set to be a sentenced after pleading guilty to federal charges related to the racially motivated torture of two Black men.
The former officers pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges related to the beating, sexual assaults of two Black men in Mississippi.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated, []
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG (Associated Press/Report for America) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell […]
Sentencing began Tuesday for six White former Mississippi police officers who tortured two Black men last year after a complaint from a neighbor that the men were living with a White woman. The officers assaulted the men with stun guns, sex toys and liquids before forcing them to shower together. One of the officers then shot one of the victims in the mouth in a mock execution and planted evidence in an attempt to cover up the crimes. Former prosecutor Steve Baric joined CBS News to talk about...