24, beat them, assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them repeatedly with Tasers over the course of about 90 minutes. The two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, say the officers burst into the home they were residing in without a warrant on Jan. "The details of the crimes these defendants committed is a horrific and stark example of violent police misconduct which has no place in our society today," said Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in a news conference Thursday. The five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies and another officer appeared in federal court Thursday and pleaded guilty to 13 federal felony offenses, including civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of law, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to federal charges in the beating and sexual assault of two Black men, one of whom was also shot in the mouth.
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