6 white ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to assault on 2 Black men
Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department said the Mississippi officers "caused harm to the entire community who feel that they can't trust the police officers who are supposed to serve them."
JACKSON, Miss. — Six former Mississippi police officers, including some calling themselves "The Goon Squad," pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth.
The officers, who are all white, entered a house without a warrant on Jan. 24, assaulting the men with a sex toy and using stun guns and other objects to abuse them over a roughly 90-minute period, court documents show. After one victim was shot and wounded in a "mock execution" that went awry, documents say the officers conspired to plant and tamper with evidence
