JACKSON, Miss. — 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 man in the mouth.
The officers, who are all white, entered a house without a warrant on Jan. 24, assaulting the men with a sex toy and using stun guns and other objects to abuse them over a roughly 90-minute period, court documents show. After one victim was shot and wounded in a "mock execution" that went awry, documents say the officers conspired to plant and tamper with evidence instead of providing medical aid.
