Attorneys Trent Walker and Malik Shabazz, with Black Lawyers for Justice, spoke to reporters on Monday in response to the U.S ...

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

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

Rankin County Sheriff's Office investigated by Department of Justice following the violent attack against two Black men ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

Rankin County ... The Mississippi sheriff has overseen a department in which five deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. They called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness ...

The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.

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