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Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Jan. 17, 2023. Photo credit: Eric Shelton, Mississippi Today

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Black student found hanging from tree at Mississippi’s Delta State University had no broken bones, coroner says

September 17, 2025
By SImeon Gates
Mississippi Today

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Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing

May 10, 2024
By Michael Goldberg
The Associated Press/Report for America

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This combination of photos shows, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield appearing at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Mississippi, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men were sentenced by a state judge Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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6 former Mississippi law officers sentenced in state court for torture of 2 Black men

April 10, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Michael Corey Jenkins, left, and Eddie Terrell Parker walk toward the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, for sentencing of the fifth of the six former Mississippi Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on them in 2023. The six former law officers pleaded guilty to a number of federal charges for torturing the two Black men and their sentencing began Tuesday in federal court. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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White former officers get sentences of 10 to 40 years in torture of 2 Black men in Mississippi

March 22, 2024
By The Associated Press
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This combination of photos shows, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield appearing at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Mississippi, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men were sentenced by a state judge Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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3rd of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 17.5 years for racist torture of 2 Black men

March 20, 2024
By The Associated Press
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An anti-police brutality activist looks back at the entrance to the Rankin County Sheriff's Office in Brandon, Miss., Wednesday, July 5, 2023, as the group called for the termination and prosecution of Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey for running a law enforcement department that allegedly terrorizes and brutalizes people of color. Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers, including some who call themselves the "Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty to state charges Monday, Aug. 14, for their assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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Six former Mississippi officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men

August 14, 2023
By Michael Goldberg
The Associated Press/Report for America

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