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Daniel Opdyke, a former Rankin County sheriff's deputy, looks to his family after being sentenced Wednesday in Brandon, Miss., on state charges stemming from the 2023 racially motivated torture of two Black men. (Associated Press)
Apr 11, 2024

Court sentences former lawmen in torture case

BRANDON, Miss. — 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 […]

Over Wednesday and Thursday, a federal judge in Jackson, Miss., sentenced the last four former law officers — from left, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield — who pleaded guilty in the horrific torture of two Black men in Rankin County, Miss. (Composite from Associated Press photo)
Mar 22, 2024

Court sentences last ‘Goon Squad’ case officers

JACKSON, Miss. — 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 […]

Former Deputy Sheriffs Hunter Elward, 31, left, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, were sentenced Tuesday in Jackson, Miss., to 20 and 17½ years respectively in federal prison Tuesday for their roles in the torture of two Black men who had committed no crime. (Composite from Associated Press photo)
Mar 20, 2024

‘Goon Squad’ deputies given yearslong sentences

JACKSON, Miss. — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sat on the front row of a packed courtroom Tuesday and watched as a federal judge handed down yearslong sentences […]

Michael Christian Green, a former officer with the Pearl Police Department, awaits sentencing on a federal deprivation of civil rights charge stemming from him making a jailed man lick urine from a holding cell floor. (Associated Press)
Mar 18, 2024

Ex-officer pleads guilty in urine-licking incident

JACKSON, Miss. — A former Mississippi police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities said he forced a man he had arrested to lick urine off […]

Oct 16, 2023

Sheriff: ‘Qualified immunity’ bars torture lawsuit

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former deputies pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for the torture of two Black […]


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