6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will sentence two defendants each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after& twice delaying& the proceedings. Each faces the potential of decades behind bars.The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of& racially motivated, violent torture. In a January 2023 episode, the group of six burst into a Rankin County home without a warrant and assaulted Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Parker with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects.The terror began on Jan. 24, 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence.A white person phoned Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves “The Goon Squad.”Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker and poured milk, alcohol and...