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On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that Jenkins and Parker had entered the ...
The last of six former law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men outside Mississippi’s capital has been sentenced. Former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield was given an ...
Police said he was a suspected looter, but the looted business's owner denied this. Banks died on August 14 from his injuries. [13] July 25, 1967 Arthur Johnson: 36 Detroit, Michigan: Police shot Johnson and Williams inside a looted pawn shop. Police said Johnson had a club, but it was never produced by police. [13] Perry Williams: 33 July 25, 1967
Six former Mississippi police officers, including some calling themselves "The Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one ...
On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi.According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times in the head and chest.
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The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside a campus dormitory. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve. [1]
Police in a majority-Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against critics, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report ...