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<!– –> Justice Department has charged the six officers with a total of 13 felonies. (Representational) Six former law enforcement officers from Rankin County, Mississippi, are up for sentencing after pleading guilty to abusing two Black men in racially motivated attacks. The incidents occurred on January 24 last year, reported
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market. The prosecution over golden and bald eagles killed on the Flathead Indian Reservation underscores the […]
Justice Department has charged the six officers with a total of 13 felonies. (Representational) Six former law enforcement officers from Rankin County, Mississippi, are up for sentencing after pleading guilty to abusing two Black men in racially motivated attacks. The incidents occurred on January 24 last year, reported
FILE – Law enforcement officials continue their investigation at a Dollar General Store that was the scene of a mass shooting, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. Family members of three Black people who were fatally shot this summer inside the Dollar General store by a shooter who had posted racist writings sued the store’s […]
Tampa, Florida – U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Adetunji Adejumo and Ibrahim Jinadu have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to their roles in a transnational tax fraud scheme. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A third conspirator, Olufemi Odedeyi, of London, United Kingdom, remains […]
Two federal criminal informations were unsealed today charging six former Mississippi law enforcement officers with a total of 16 felonies stemming from the torture and physical abuse of three Rankin County residents in two separate unrelated incidents. Those 16 felonies include civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of law, discharge of a firearm […]
BRANDON, Miss. — 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. In the gruesome crimes committed by men tasked with enforcing the law, federal prosecutors saw echoes […]
Six white former law enforcement officers pleaded guilty in Mississippi on Monday to state charges tied to a home raid they conducted in which prosecutors said they beat and tortured two Black men. The guilty pleas came less than two weeks after the former officers pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses stemming from the […]
Six white officers have agreed to sentences of between five and 30 years, recommended by Mississippi prosecutors. Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers, all of whom are white, have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men in . . .
Rogelio V. Solis/AP/FILE Activists march towards the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Brandon, Mississippi, on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, after five former deputies and one former Richland police officer were accused of assaulting two Black men. CNN — Six former