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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Goldberg

Mississippi sheriff aims to avoid liability from federal lawsuit over torture of Black men

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The Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former deputies pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for the torture of two Black men has asked a federal court to dismiss a civil lawsuit against him.

Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker were abused in a case of extrajudicial violence that even the sheriff they're suing called the worst case of police brutality he had ever seen.

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