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The Associated Press

2 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' deputies get yearslong sentences for torturing 2 Black men

Michael Corey Jenkins, third from left, and Eddie Terrell Parker, right, stand with supporters outside the courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 19, 2024, calling for harsh penalties against six former law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on himself and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker in 2023. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

JACKSON, Miss. — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sat on the front row of a packed courtroom Tuesday and watched as a federal judge handed down yearslong sentences to two of the white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured the two Black men last year in a brutal attack that began on the basis of race.

After a neighbor complained about them staying in a white woman's home, the Black men were tortured by people who had sworn an oath to serve and protect them.

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