White Mississippi ex-officers plead guilty to torturing two Black men

Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty on Thursday to multiple counts of civil rights violations for a January raid in Rankin County during which they tortured and physically abused two Black men, the Justice Department said. The officers, who are White, admitted to entering a home in Braxton, Miss., without a warrant and carrying out an array of “traumatizing and horrific acts of violence” on the two men, federal prosecutors said. The men were handcuffed and arrested without probable cause, punched, verbally abused with racist slurs and Tasered more than a dozen times, the investigation revealed. The officers threw eggs at the men, held them down while pouring milk and alcohol over their faces, and assaulted one of the victims with a sword, prosecutors said. One officer carried out a “mock execution” by inserting a gun into the mouth of one man, according to the indictment. When the firearm discharged, it broke his jaw.

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