Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN
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On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 years ago

    Hi people that think maybe the headline gives enough info and it isn’t necessary to read the article! read the article!!! It’s so so so much worse than I anticipated.

    three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

    The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to a property in Braxton, roughly 30 miles south of Jackson, to handle a complaint received by the office’s chief investigator, Brett McAlpin. The details of what prosecutors say happened that night were shared in a federal charging document.

    McAlpin’s White neighbor had told him several Black men were staying at a White woman’s home there and reported seeing suspicious behavior.

    And then…

    Over the next two hours, Parker and Jenkins were subjected to grueling violence at the hands of the six White law enforcement officers, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.

    AND THERE IS STILL MORE TO READ! and I skipped other horrible shit like how they were told to behave in front of cameras and “no bad mugshots” I haven’t even finished the article, what I’ve read so far is bad enough I have to send this now. Before other details send me into incoherent

    ETA: it’s disgusting. I’m so done. This is worse than I ever imagined and tbh anyone who has commented so far I’m not sure they even read it because it is so so clear these officers were having a great time, with a group chat name and slapping them with dildos and oh it is SO SO SO blatantly racist

    The officers then hauled the two men into the living room where all six men spewed racial slurs at them and accused them of taking advantage of the White woman who owned the house. They warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to “their side” of the Pearl River

    AND IM STILL NOT DONE. I can’t finish this tonight. It is too horrible.

    • new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      “No bad mugshots,” Dedmon added in another text. The other deputies understood what he meant: They had the green light to use “excessive force” on areas of a person’s body that would not be captured in a mugshot, prosecutors said.

      I agree with the person I’m responding to. It’s worse than you think, go read the article

    • Evie @lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      And they did it all happily thanks to qualified immunity… these fucking pigs

  • TheJims@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    That’s the most Mississippi thing I’ve ever heard today.

    I’m over News trump has 6 less voters.

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I fucking hope not. I don’t think it’s that people stopped caring, the media stopped giving it airtime. But I’m not part of this marginalized group, I’m not black, so perhaps you have experience with individuals actually caring less and I don’t mean to discredit that! It would depress me a lot if that is reality though and I’d be very disappointed and disillusioned by allies. Trump was responsible for a lot of shit in America but police brutality against the black (and anyone brown tbh) communities has been in headlines since forever and BLM started during Obama didn’t it?

      • YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 years ago

        You hope not? I literally see no color anywhere in the Fediverse, just white people. It’s the same on Mastadon too. The racism was always here, Trump just amplified their voice, but now that he’s gone the masks have gone back on

        • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’m sorry I don’t understand the connection how a new growing website’s diversity or lack of reflects people stopped caring about injustices and brutality against marginalized groups. I do agree racism was always there.

  • motor_spirit@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I hope to see an article of this shit happening to these cunts in jail. Broadcast it to the world after the fact like abu ghraib.

    Tired of seeing these fat sloppy rednecks get away with shit they need to be shook up and fucking frightened.