Mississippi police officer accused of forcing prisoner to drink his own urine

godzilla_lives , 2 months ago

Rankin County. They have a goon squad that's gotten away with murder for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/rankin-county-mississippi-sheriff.html

Content Warning, violence

For nearly two decades, a loose band of sheriff’s deputies roamed impoverished neighborhoods across a central Mississippi county, meting out their own version of justice.

Narcotics detectives and patrol officers, some who called themselves the Goon Squad, barged into homes in the middle of the night, accusing people inside of dealing drugs. Then they handcuffed or held them at gunpoint and tortured them into confessing or providing information, according to dozens of people who say they endured or witnessed the assaults.

Used to work with a woman who's brother was pulled over and had the shit beaten out of him by the Rankin Sheriff's dept. And this isn't some backwater town either, it's a highly-developed metropolitan area.