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6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:48 am
by Della
"The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture. In a January 2023 episode, the group of six burst into a Rankin County home without a warrant and assaulted Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Parker with stun guns, a S*x toy and other objects.
The terror began on Jan. 24, 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence.
A white person phoned Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves “The Goon Squad.”
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi- ... 5cc97f2934
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:55 am
by MonarchMom
Horrific
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:37 am
by Francee89
Christian Dedmon is a cousin of Deryl Dedmon, who is serving life without parole plus a 50 year federal sentence for this hate crime murder of a Black man:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ ... g_Anderson
Hopefully they have a very long family reunion in store.
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:01 pm
by SouthernIslander
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:49 pm
by Francee89
The first two to be sentenced got 20 and 17 years:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/19/us/m ... ng-tuesday
This part of the article, good god.
Elward’s parents, Edward Elward and Terrie Elward, also took the stand to testify before the judge imposed their son’s sentence.
“Nothing prepares a parent for this,” Edward Elward said. “What happened shouldn’t have happened. There are many more victims than the people in this room. Hunter is going to take and own what he did. I hope there is some mercy along the way, so he can get back to his family, get back to his three sons.”
The former officer’s mother was in tears and her voice was quivering as she addressed the court. “I couldn’t have been more proud of him when he said he was going to be a Rankin County Sheriff’s deputy. And I’m still proud of him,” she said.
“The remorse Hunter has had for this is unbearable … Nothing would have told me he was a racist,” the mother said. At that point, there was audible laughter in the courtroom.
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:10 pm
by Della
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:51 pm
by Slimshandy
They should have gotten life in prison. Not 20 years that counts as a life sentence, their entire life- without parole.
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:06 pm
by Della
Slimshandy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:51 pm
They should have gotten life in prison. Not 20 years that counts as a life sentence, their entire life- without parole.
Or at least run the sentencing consecutive instead of concurrent. Or both.
Hey, we agree!
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:33 pm
by SouthernIslander
Della wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:10 pm
Sick fucker.
It is sad that area hasn’t changed.
Re: 6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:20 pm
by Della
SouthernIslander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:33 pm
Della wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:10 pm
Sick fucker.
It is sad that area hasn’t changed.
Makes me physically ill.