All 6 officers from Mississippi "Goon Squad" have been sentenced to prison for torturing 2 Black men

[demmiblue]

Source: CBS News

Sentencing has concluded for the six white former officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men.

High-ranking Former deputy Brett McAlpin, 53, was the fifth former law enforcement officer sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee after pleading guilty to the attack, which involved beatings, repeated uses of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth. The final member of the group, 32-year-old former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, was given a sentence of about 10 years on Thursday afternoon.

Before his sentencing, McAlpin apologized to victims Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker.

"This was all wrong, very wrong. It's not how people should treat each other and even more so, it's not how law enforcement should treat people," McAlpin said. "I'm really sorry for being a part of something that made law enforcement look so bad."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-good-squad-rankin-county-brett-mcalpin-joshua-hartfield/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=368244314

[walkingman]

1. I hope it is State Prison not Federal.

[erronis]

3. Just curious - why do you hope it is in a state vs. federal prison?

My first thought is that a Mississippi prison would actually show some leniency to these criminals. "Just what we boys do..."

[walkingman]

9. Parchman Prison (Mississippi State Prison) is a shithole that has been in the news

for the inhuman treatment of inmates for decades - majority black (as you would expect in Mississippi). I'm quite sure their life would not be a pleasant experience there.

[Prairie Gates]

14. What in the world?

[prodigitalson]

8. I hope it's federal...there is no parole in the federal system

they'll spend more actual time behind bars

[Bluejeans]

11. The Goon Squad was sentenced under Federal law

The Goon Squad was sentenced under Federal law, so they'll go to a Federal prison.

Some or all of them may also face state charges. If convicted on state charges, then the state and the DOJ will decide where they should do the Federal plus state time.

[Warpy]

17. Federal courtroom so Federal Prison

I don't think Mississippi can still make state charges stick against 6 white men doing anything to black men, especially if those 6 white men are cops or former cops.

The Feds had to step in with civil rights violation charges, which seem inadequate except it already sent the ringleader up for 27 years.

[Old Okie]

2. Goons

How do you apologize for acts like these; this is an example of what is wrong with immunity shields for law enforcement; they should hold themselves to a higher standard of conduct.

[kimbutgar]

4. Will Tate Reeves pardon them?

Or will the orange maggot run on pardoning them if re elected?

[TomSlick]

16. A state governor cannot pardon federal convictions.

TFG could if elected but since they did nothing to promote TFG's insurrection, I'm betting it won't happen. Everything is transactional for TFG. There is nothing in it for him to pardon these guys.

[kimbutgar]

19. I forgot about the transactional thing !

[Marthe48]

5. This was one of the more awful things I've read

What those men endured, and how many others are assaulted and never able to get justice.

I hope the victims are doing well and healing as much as they can from this horrific abuse of power used against American citizens.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Bizarre. From beginning to end. The scary part is they thought they would get away with it.

[walkingman]

10. They probably have gotten away with it for a long time. Rankin County

is a mostly white county that joins the city of Jackson that is mostly black. No matter what you hear or read racism is alive and well in Mississippi - I know I (white) grew up in Mississippi and left when I finished HS in the 60s. I left, went to college. I vowed to never go back except to visit relatives - moved to Texas which at the time was a great place. Now it is in competition with Mississippi. I don't think the South will ever change - although it has improved a lot since the days of the Civil Rights Movement.

I know this is harsh - but it is reality.

[Coventina]

7. They are only sorry they were caught.

They'd been doing this sick shit for years!

[samsingh]

12. i hope the other goons out there are listening

[PatrickforB]

13. After reading McAlpin's 'apology' I confess the first question that came to my mind is:

Why the f**k did you do it, then???

[niyad]

15. "I'm sorry for making law enforcemebt LOOK bad"???

May he and the others receive everything they deserve.

Are they going to be in gen pop or in ad seg?

[republianmushroom]

18. Enjoy your stay in prison and your membership in the felon club.

[mahina]

20. 10 years?!? Should be 50

[Lunabell]

21. What about all the other cops who knew about the goon squad?!?

And let it continue?!? You know everyone in that precinct knew what was going on but didn't cross that thin blue line. They need to investigate the whole lot of them and at the very least, fire them!!!