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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Emily Wagster Pettus

Justice Department opens civil rights probe into sheriff's office after torture of 2 Black men

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The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth, officials said Thursday.

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