The two victims were held captive and handcuffed during a two-hour ordeal that ended with one of them being shot in the mouth in a 'mock execution' that went wrong.
Two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies who were members of a group calling itself 'the Goon Squad' have been handed lengthy prison sentences for their part in torturing two black men. Hunter Elward, 31, was jailed for 20 years, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years on Tuesday during back-to-back proceedings at a federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, according to the US Justice Department.
False charges stood against the two victims for months. The officers warned them to 'stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or 'their side' of the Pearl River', court documents stated, referencing an area with higher concentrations of black residents. The former officers, all of them white, referred to themselves as 'the Goon Squad' because of their willingness to use excessive force, according to papers filed in the case.
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