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.