"Put simply, the concerns about the Rankin County Sheriff's Department did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad." ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the "Goon Squad" — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ... were in a self-styled “Goon Squad” – abused and tortured ...

The department’s sweeping “pattern or practice” investigation will seek to determine whether the Rankin ... Goon Squad,” she said. U.S. Attorney Todd Gee of the Southern District of ...

Rankin County came to national attention last year after deputies, some from the Goon Squad, tortured two Black ... Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today Many of those allegations were detailed last ...

“The public is now well aware of the heinous attack inflicted on two Black men by Rankin County deputies who called themselves the ‘Goon Squad ... District of Mississippi, said the ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former ...