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Officer Who Made Man Lick Urine Off Jail Floor Pleads Guilty (www.mississippifreepress.org)
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[–] some_guy 9 points 1 year ago

It’s rare for law enforcement officers in Mississippi be charged with brutality, although authorities typically investigate several cases each year of shootings by police. Pearl is in Rankin County, where six white former law enforcement officers—including some who called themselves the “Goon Squad”—pleaded guilty last year to federal charges in a racist assault on two Black men.