Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two White former Mississippi law enforcement officers who were members of a self-styled “Goon Squad” were sentenced by a federal ...

The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office says it will conduct a review and analysis after a Wednesday report from The New York Times and Mississippi Today detailed messages in an encrypted WhatsApp group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who ...

Eddie Parker stood in a courtroom facing the former Mississippi law enforcement officers who were convicted of torturing him and one of his friends. Some of the ex-officers wore red-striped outfits ...

Years of messages from an encrypted WhatsApp text thread show conversations of sheriff’s deputies, including those who terrorized Mississippi residents. By Nate Rosenfield Brian Howey and Jerry ...

In Mississippi, two more former sheriff’s deputies were sentenced Wednesday for torturing and sexually abusing two Black men in January 2023. Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison, and ...

A Mississippi man has come forward saying he was beaten by a known member of the “Goon Squad” and other law enforcement officers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges ...

Two more members of a “Goon Squad” of Mississippi police officers were sentenced to lengthy prison terms Wednesday for torturing two Black men in a blatantly racist assault. Christian Dedmon got 40 ...

Six white former Mississippi police officers, who as part of a “goon squad” tortured two Black men pleaded guilty to blocking prosecution efforts. According to reports, the police officers pled guilty ...