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Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriffs department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries, an Associated Press investigation found.
Two of the men allege that Rankin County sheriffs deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters. In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together. In one of the two fatal confrontations, the mans mother said a deputy kneeled on her sons neck while he told them he couldnt breathe.
Police and court records obtained by the AP show that several deputies who were accepted to the sheriffs offices Special Response Team a tactical unit whose members receive advanced training were involved in each of the four encounters. In three of them, the heavily redacted documents dont indicate if they were serving in their normal capacity as deputies or as members of the unit.
Such units have drawn scrutiny since the January killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black father who died days after being severely beaten by Black members of a special police team in Memphis, Tennessee. Nichols death led to a Justice Department probe of similar squads around the country that comes amid the broader public reckoning over race and policing sparked by the 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
In Mississippi, the police shooting of Michael Corey Jenkins led the Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriffs Department. Jenkins said six white deputies burst into a home where he was visiting a friend, and one put a gun in his mouth and fired. Jenkins hospital records, parts of which he shared with AP, show he had a lacerated tongue and broken jaw.
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Mississhitty. White deputies, Black man. Anyone surprised?
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)oh, you mean the Hit Squad?
Obviously we still have some rotten cops on the force.
ColinC
(8,329 posts)But clear evidence that it did? Shouldnt be taking so many years to determine what happened.