"Put simply, the concerns about the Rankin County Sheriff's Department did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad." ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

Sept. 19, 2024 The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the suburban Mississippi sheriff’s department where a self-described “Goon Squad” of ...

Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the "Goon Squad" — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for ...

its department of public safety and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation for comment but did not immediately hear back. Since the horrifying brutality of the “Goon Squad” case came to light ...

The alleged abuse “did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad,” she said. U.S. Attorney Todd Gee of the Southern District of Mississippi, who joined the online announcement, said he ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former ...

Deputy Brett McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who then texted a group of white deputies nicknamed “the Goon Squad” for their willingness to use excessive force. Dedmon asked if the ...

The “Goon Squad” officers were sentenced in March ... Gee, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, said the information the department has received “calls back to some ...