Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN
On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
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They are awaiting sentencing according to the article. Pleaded guilty to a bunch of felonies each of them.
Can't say yet that the punishment will be appropriate though cause we don't know it yet.
So far everything I've read is saying 5 years. Two 5 year sentences running concurrently.
I hope they're not still getting paid since they are no longer police officers.
Very sad to see this for these black men. Not that shocking though.
What the fuck.
The state case sounds very weak given the heinous acts they all committed. I hope the civil case does better.