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6 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officers sentenced to 15 to 45 years on state charges for torture of 2 Black men
NBC News ^ | April 10, 2024 | Maria Piñero, Marlene Lenthang and Doha Madani

Posted on 04/10/2024 8:56:42 AM PDT by Coronal

The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges.

The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August.

McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to 15 years in federal penitentiaries. The sentences will be served concurrently with their federal sentences, and all were ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.

Prosecutors said the white officers had nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” due to their willingness to use excessive force and cover up their brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.

In the attack, the men verbally abused Jenkins and Parker, beat them, assaulted them with stun guns and a sex toy, and one of them shot Jenkins in the mouth in a "mock execution."

The men had also pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the assault and were sentenced to federal prison terms of 10 to 40 years.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: goonsquad
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1 posted on 04/10/2024 8:56:42 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

They may not last long in lock up…


2 posted on 04/10/2024 8:59:53 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Coronal

bend over boys, here it comes...


3 posted on 04/10/2024 9:02:01 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

No, I don’t expect them to.


4 posted on 04/10/2024 9:02:51 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Chode

The Poon Squad.


5 posted on 04/10/2024 9:07:12 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Coronal

And they didn’t do jack to the Uvalde “goon squad” that stood back and let 21 children and adults be murdered by an out-of-control tranvestite at a Uvalde elementary school. Be consistent and knock off the whining.


6 posted on 04/10/2024 9:07:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Derick Chauvin darn near got murdered in general lockup, then put right back into general after he recovered-


7 posted on 04/10/2024 9:08:07 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Coronal

everyone associated with the political prosecution of Trump needs to be sentenced similarly.


8 posted on 04/10/2024 9:08:53 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Coronal
6 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officers sentenced to 15 to 45 years on state charges for torture of 2 Black men

I don't know much about the facts of this case, but this seems ridiculously excessive.

They give people less time for murder and rape.

I suspect this is all political, and once again the "law" breaks down into an inconsistent mess subject to whims.

9 posted on 04/10/2024 9:13:49 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Coronal

I wonder what $6,431 will buy in 10 years, 20 years?


10 posted on 04/10/2024 9:25:24 AM PDT by alternatives? (`)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The uvalde shooter was not trans.


11 posted on 04/10/2024 9:26:53 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz

He looked like it to me.


12 posted on 04/10/2024 9:29:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You were duped. Feel free to search if you doubt me.


13 posted on 04/10/2024 9:30:57 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Coronal

Out in four years.


14 posted on 04/10/2024 9:32:39 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Fuzz

Will do! Have a nice day!


15 posted on 04/10/2024 9:32:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: Fuzz

>The uvalde shooter was not trans.

I’ve seen a picture of him in a dress. Then a bunch of people posted a suspected different picture which was linked to a Redditor (surprise, surprise), which disappeared the rumor from the Internet quickly, but my questions about that one picture that looks very much like the shooter in the dress remains.


16 posted on 04/10/2024 9:33:37 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Coronal

They bought themselves long term memberships to the Mississippi State Country Club.


17 posted on 04/10/2024 9:57:14 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Fuzz is a moronic agitator. Look at his posting history. People like him pollute this forum.


18 posted on 04/10/2024 10:03:19 AM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republict)
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To: Coronal

I hope they have fun getting gang raped in prison.


19 posted on 04/10/2024 12:04:10 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: gundog

LOL! yup...


20 posted on 04/10/2024 12:14:05 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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