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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Goldberg

'The Goon Squad': How rogue Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the ground, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

The roughly 90-minute period of terror preceding the shooting began late on Jan. 24 after a white neighbor called Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman inside a Braxton home.

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