On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
Hi people that think maybe the headline gives enough info and it isn’t necessary to read the article! read the article!!!
It’s so so so much worse than I anticipated.
three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to a property in Braxton, roughly 30 miles south of Jackson, to handle a complaint received by the office’s chief investigator, Brett McAlpin. The details of what prosecutors say happened that night were shared in a federal charging document.
McAlpin’s White neighbor had told him several Black men were staying at a White woman’s home there and reported seeing suspicious behavior.
And then…
Over the next two hours, Parker and Jenkins were subjected to grueling violence at the hands of the six White law enforcement officers, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.
AND THERE IS STILL MORE TO READ! and I skipped other horrible shit like how they were told to behave in front of cameras and “no bad mugshots” I haven’t even finished the article, what I’ve read so far is bad enough I have to send this now. Before other details send me into incoherent
ETA: it’s disgusting. I’m so done. This is worse than I ever imagined and tbh anyone who has commented so far I’m not sure they even read it because it is so so clear these officers were having a great time, with a group chat name and slapping them with dildos and oh it is SO SO SO blatantly racist
The officers then hauled the two men into the living room where all six men spewed racial slurs at them and accused them of taking advantage of the White woman who owned the house. They warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to “their side” of the Pearl River
AND IM STILL NOT DONE. I can’t finish this tonight. It is too horrible.
“No bad mugshots,” Dedmon added in another text. The other deputies understood what he meant: They had the green light to use “excessive force” on areas of a person’s body that would not be captured in a mugshot, prosecutors said.
I agree with the person I’m responding to. It’s worse than you think, go read the article
I want them to suffer but I think the bitch that called them needs serious consequences too. Absolutely no way she didn’t know on some level what she was doing.
(Nevermind I misread the details of who did/said what. The one thing I did remember correctly is the woman didn’t file a complaint just mentioned it to her neighbor who is the police chief.) I totally missed the the extra context of how it started.
I certainly wouldn’t expect that remark would lead to police breaking into the house in the middle of the night and torturing these men because it’s just so fucking extremely evil (and it was torture, I’d be amazed if they didn’t have PTSD) I HOPE she cares and feels guilt, but this whole story is some Tulsa and Emmett Till levels of brutality and racism.
Hi people that think maybe the headline gives enough info and it isn’t necessary to read the article! read the article!!! It’s so so so much worse than I anticipated.
And then…
AND THERE IS STILL MORE TO READ! and I skipped other horrible shit like how they were told to behave in front of cameras and “no bad mugshots” I haven’t even finished the article, what I’ve read so far is bad enough I have to send this now. Before other details send me into incoherent
ETA: it’s disgusting. I’m so done. This is worse than I ever imagined and tbh anyone who has commented so far I’m not sure they even read it because it is so so clear these officers were having a great time, with a group chat name and slapping them with dildos and oh it is SO SO SO blatantly racist
AND IM STILL NOT DONE. I can’t finish this tonight. It is too horrible.
I agree with the person I’m responding to. It’s worse than you think, go read the article
And they did it all happily thanks to qualified immunity… these fucking pigs
I want them to suffer but I think the bitch that called them needs serious consequences too. Absolutely no way she didn’t know on some level what she was doing.
(Nevermind I misread the details of who did/said what. The one thing I did remember correctly is the woman didn’t file a complaint just mentioned it to her neighbor who is the police chief.) I totally missed the the extra context of how it started.
I certainly wouldn’t expect that remark would lead to police breaking into the house in the middle of the night and torturing these men because it’s just so fucking extremely evil (and it was torture, I’d be amazed if they didn’t have PTSD) I HOPE she cares and feels guilt, but this whole story is some Tulsa and Emmett Till levels of brutality and racism.