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Eddie Terrell Parker, right, hugs a supporter Monday prior to a hearing where six former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty to state charges at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon for torturing him and Michael Corey Jenkins in a racist assault. (By The Associated Press)

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6 former officers plead guilty in torture of men
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,08/15/23-2:00AM , 957 Reads
BRANDON — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault. All six had recently admitted their guilt in a connected federal civil rights case.
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Sound of Rankin County Circuit Jude Steve Ratcliff reading the charges to former officer Brett McAlpin. COURTESY: WAPT TV ((mandatory on-air credit))

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Six former Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Sun,08/13/23-11:19PM , 773 Reads
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault.
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Monica Lee stands outside her eldest son's house in Braxton, Miss., March 21, 2023, as she talks about her youngest son, Damien Cameron. The 29-year-old Black man, with a history of mental illness, died in July 2021 after being arrested by two Rankin County sheriff's deputies. A civil suit can continue against a former Mississippi deputy who pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to torturing and shooting a Black man in the mouth, with the suit alleging the former deputy is also responsible for the death of another Black man in 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

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Civil suit can continue against corrupt former deputy linked to death of Mississippi man
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,08/10/23-2:39PM , 364 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A civil suit can continue against a former Mississippi deputy who pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to torturing two Black men and shooting one of them in the mouth, with the suit alleging the deputy is also responsible for the death of another Black man in 2021.
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Mississippi GOP incumbent public service commissioner ousted amid statewide primaries
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,08/09/23-1:27PM , 230 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Businessman Nelson “Wayne” Carr defeated first-term Southern District Public Service Commissioner Dane Maxwell in Mississippi’s Republican primary Tuesday.
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