Each one agreed to sentences recommended by state prosecutors ranging from five to 30 years, although the judge isn’t bound by that.
In the gruesome crimes committed by men tasked with enforcing the law, federal prosecutors saw echoes of Mississippi’s dark history, including theafter a deputy handed them off to the Ku Klux Klan. Locally, the sheriff whose deputies committed the crimes this year called it the worst case of police brutality he had ever seen.
Their conspiracy unraveled after one officer told the sheriff he had lied, leading to confessions from the others. The charges against the victims weren’t dropped until June after federal and state investigators got involved, according to their attorney. The victims — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker — arrived together to Monday’s hearing and sat in the front row, just feet from their attackers’ families. They were embraced by Monica Lee, the mother of Damien Cameron, a Black man who died in Elward’s custody in 2021.
Jenkins and Parker were targeted because a white neighbor complained that two Black men were staying at the home with a white woman, court documents show. “As far as justice, I knew we were going to get it,” Jenkins has said. “But I thought it was maybe going to take longer.”Lee claims Elward and a current deputy not linked to the Jenkins assault killed her son. A grand jury declined to indict Elward after he punched Cameron and shocked him with a stun gun, but a Rankin County judge ruledthat Lee’s claims of excessive force could move forward against him, and Lee said the FBI told her they’re reviewing the case.
Bailey had acknowledged his lax body camera policy failed. After the officers pleaded guilty, he promised to change it.
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