Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.
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.
Rankin County ... The Mississippi sheriff has overseen a department in which five deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. They called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness ...
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...
Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...
Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following ...
The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...
The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...
The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department ...