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    2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences

    by Michael Goldberg Mar 18, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers last year called Monday for a federal judge to impose the strictest possible penalties at their sentencings this week.

    The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture.

    Prompted by a neighbor's complaint in January 2023 that Jenkins and Parker were

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