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Six former white Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to state charges related to the torture of two Black men.
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BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men were sentenced Wednesday in state court. The state sentences did not add time to the federal prison terms the []
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced Wednesday in state court. The six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who attacked Michael Corey Jenkins and
Already sentenced to federal prison, the first of six former Mississippi
6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced in state court for torture of 2 Black men
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men for hours were sentenced in state court Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison.
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who abused two Black men for hours were sentenced in state court Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison. Their sentences will run concurrently with their federal sentences handed down last month, which range from 10 to 40 years in prison. The ex-officers had pleaded guilty after the torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker at a home in January 2023. Five former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies – Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon,...
The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges. The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August. McAlpin, Middleton, and...
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