“Using a sex toy on them” When are we going to start referring to sexual assault of men as what it is?
I mean, it’s sexual assault obviously, but in this case, “using a sex toy on them” provides a bit more context than just generically labeling it as “sexual assault”. Sexual assault could be many different things.
The article also goes on to describe that they put the sex toys in the men’s mouth. I think the “used a sex toy on them” is just more descriptive in this situation, because if they used “sexual assault”, people would not be able to decipher what these POS officers actually did.
I do agree that the media can be terrible about minimizing sexual assault on men, but in this case I think the headline is more descriptive. Also , fuck these racist rapist cops.
“Raped a man with a dildo”
Brings the same point across while accentuating what actually happened.
They raped him. They forcefully penetrated him with a fake penis. That’s rape even according to the current bullshit definition.
I totally agree there. They should make it as graphic and specific as possible to really show how fucked up the situation is and show how terrible the perpetrators are, at least in my opinion.
This & the word “torture” could also mean many things yet they used it as well
Had to stop reading. I have no words.
Insane. Fucking disgusting.
They didn’t include it in the article, but this fuckin “good squad” was called to the place because “two black men were staying with a white woman.” Thats was the call.
Who the fuck made that call? They obviously knew this type of outcome was likely, because that’s not fucking illegal. No one makes that call without knowing these types of fucking scum would be responding. So where the fuck is that indictment.
I heard an NPR piece on it last week, and that was more than enough for me. When are we going to start holding law enforcement to a higher standard than everyone else? Instead of qualified immunity, we should start saying that an officer found guilty of a crime gets double the punishment of a regular citizen. Yes, that means fewer people will want the job - I’m okay with that.
They should be forced to carry malpractice insurance just like a doctor.
Many cops make up to 300k a year with overtime. They can afford it.
jfc. I hope they go to prison for the maximum. That shit was hard to read.
Unfortunately, I suspect there is no way they agreed to a guilty plea without an offer on the table.
unfortunately, i think you’re right. They deserve nothing less than the maximum
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Makes you wonder how often stuff like this happens … it seems that they were only caught because they accidentally shot one of the victims.
I remember seeing a film years ago called Mississippi Burning (set in the 1960s) about how entire communities and institutions condone behaviour just like this - and thinking “thank god such stuff doesn’t happen any more”. That now feels like a remarkably naive attitude.
Pretty grim reading.
Not to twist the knife, but looking at all the cases that have relied on bodycams or bystander phone cams - almost always coupled with a police report that the video proved later to be a lie - makes me shudder to imagine what was going on every single decade before cops had to always worry about likely being on someone’s camera.
I have my concerns about what the increasing proliferation of cell phone cameras, private security cameras, and doorbell cams mean for general privacy, but no doubt this behavior is only going to get harder and harder for cops.
We’ll know we’ve crossed a turning point when most of the time the video doesn’t prove the initial police statement was a lie. Don’t think we’re there yet, but we’ll get there. And frankly it’s become clear that police aren’t going to change their behavior without being caught a lot more, so at this point I say bring on the cams.
I mean, it wasn’t that long ago that we learned PD’s in major cities were running black sites.
Makes you wonder how often stuff like this happens … it seems that they were only caught because they accidentally shot one of the victims.
Actually, no. They’ve been caught before, but it didn’t quite stick. I think that makes it worse.
From the article:
The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has faced previous lawsuits related to police misconduct, some involving the officers named in today’s indictment.
More details are in the article about other incidents.
I don’t tend to make generalizations about a whole department but I seriously question if Rankin county is better off without a sheriff’s department entirely.
“raped” they raped him. Even by americas fucked up definition of rape. Raped him. Why can’t news just say ‘they raped the man’ always with weird innuendos.
The police are rapists. So easy to type. Almost flows off the keys.
<s> Men can’t be raped, haven’t you heard? </s>
Woah woah woah. Let’s not jump to any conclusions about everyone yet. Let’s wait it out until we get all the facts before we say something so profound. Even if they did something of that nature there must be a good reason, they wouldn’t make choices like that without good reasons.
/s I think this is obvious, but just in case
After reading it I feel the rape part is by far not the worst part of what they did. How long were these fucking criminals getting away with this shit. If he hadn’t shot him (reads like he meant for it to not fire the second time he pulled the trigger with his gun in his mouth) then we wouldn’t even know about this and they would still be out there posing as police officers
Your last paragraph is a delight to read, thank you!
What the fuck did I just read…
This is America.
I mean… is it wrong to hope these goon fucks get what’s coming to them in prison?
“what’s coming to them in prison” is just another indictment of our broken society.
“Prison was fine, I didn’t mind prison. Except for the anal rape part. Yah, that part I didn’t enjoy much, that anal rape thing.”
- Norm MacDonald
considering the prison system creates more crime, yes it’s wrong
Gut these pigs and let em hang.
on one hand, I wish I wouldn’t have to read those headlines because it depresses me
on the other hands, there’s no point in muting that information, because people should know those things and should be angry
I thought “we should read good news”, and then /r/upliftingnews appeared and it was just a rose-colored glasses thing.
we actually need to hear bad news to make people react.
Jesus Christ on a cracker. I thought the headline was bad, and the article made it so much worse. I don’t even have words.
Hot damn is this real justice happening in Mississippi! Drain the swamp would be used in the proper context here. Monsters dressed as police officers actually being fired and facing time in prison. It’s a terrible story, but I’m happy to see the long dick of the federal law is swinging down that far south.
