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Following the arrest of the Goon Squad, Sheriff Bryan Bailey stated he was shocked to learn of the "horrendous crimes" committed by the deputies. The New York Times report found that over a dozen people had confronted Bailey and the command staff about the deputies, including a sheriff's deputy for a neighboring county who said Bailey called ...
A Mississippi sheriff's department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago, where he was arrested last week after a 15-hour standoff with police at a ...
Lawrence Andrew Rainey Sr. (March 2, 1923 – November 8, 2002) was an American police officer and white supremacist who served as Sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, from 1963 to 1968. He gained notoriety for his alleged involvement in the June 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner .
At the time of the murders, Price was 26 years old and a deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [2] While he was never charged with the murders, Price was convicted in October 1967 of violating the civil rights of the three victims. [3]
Daniel Ready Opdyke, a former deputy with the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison. And former deputy Christian Lee Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Joshua Zimmerman / Credit: DeSoto County, Mississippi Sheriff's Office Zimmerman had been charged with attempted murder and armed robbery in an incident in Southaven, Mississippi in September of ...
A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager's brutal lynching. The torture ...
On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, and taken to a Neshoba County jail. [2] The three men worked on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, attempting to organize a voter registry for African Americans. [3]