The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following ...
Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.
Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.
The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...
The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...
Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...
The U.S. Justice Department initiated a civil rights probe into Mississippi's Rankin County Sheriff's Department. The ...
Put simply, the concerns about the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad.” ...
The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...
Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...
"We will continue this transparency and will fully cooperate with all aspects of this investigation," the sheriff's office ...