AP: How rogue Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men

burntbutterbiscuits , 10 months ago

NWA said it best 35 years ago

xc2215x , 10 months ago

Generic police brutality and racism it seems here.

rapscallion , 10 months ago

Christ, this is almost Emmett Till-level vileness. How many times has this Goon Squad done Klan shit before without quite going “too far” and gotten away with it?

2d4_bears , 10 months ago

“rogue”, implying that this attitude and behavior is not actively reinforced by police training and culture.

Polydextrous , 10 months ago

The neighbor who called this fuckin lynch mob better be on trial for conspiracy as well. “A neighbor called to report two black men were staying with a white woman.”

What the fuck. We need a strong leftist militia so people have someone to call when the cops are the ones that need to be stopped.

xc2215x , 10 months ago

Yeah, insanely ignorant for sure.

Rukmer , 10 months ago

That’s like the worst thing I’ve ever read. I couldn’t finish. Normally I don’t believe in the death penalty but I would consider it here. Humans who not only try to kill but torture are just useless and don’t deserve life.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

Normally I don’t believe in the death penalty but I would consider it here.

I feel the same way, these men brutally tortured and murdered civilians for not racially segregating themselves, then tried to cover up their crimes. I believe criminal police should face worse consequences for crimes than civilians as a counterbalance for qualified immunity.

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee said the men will be sentenced in mid-November. Dedmon and Elward each face a maximum sentence of 120 years plus life in prison and $2.75 million in fines. Hartfield faces a possible sentence of 80 years and $1.5 million, McAlpin faces 90 years and $1.75 million, Middleton faces 80 years and $1.5 million, and Opdyke could be sentenced to 100 years with a $2 million fine.
The men are scheduled to plead guilty to the state charges on Aug. 14, said Mary-Helen Wall, a deputy state attorney general. source

May they get the maximum sentence and die behind bars.

An investigation by The Associated Press also linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.

Everyone responsible for hiring, overseeing, and training these officers should be investigated and possibly face serious legal consequences themselves. There's no excuse for keeping excessively violent and racist cops on the force.

joe , 10 months ago

There’s no excuse for keeping excessively violent and racist cops on the force.

I read somewhere a couple of years back that a big roadblock to the concept of “police reform” is that many (all?) police unions have language that requires officers with less seniority to be laid off before officers with more seniority. This means that if the culture is being cultivated from the old guard, and it always is, that the only way to really root it out is to completely disband the department and then start it again with all new people.

This isn’t meant to be an excuse, but to explain why it’s so difficult; almost to the point where the phrase “police reform” is a nonsensical statement. It’s less “reform” and more scrap it all and start over.

RaoulDook , 10 months ago

Disgusting, ACAB