The incident below is similar to the 1997 incident in New York City in which Rudolph Guiliani’s NYPD thugs tortured and sexually assaulted mister Abner Loumima in a station house bathroom resulting in grave injury to him.
This is what passes for policing in the United States 26 years after the Louima nightmare; not a damn thing has changed.
The Abner Louima torture by NYPD animals was one of the more egregious incidents that captured the imagination and attention of the world, but it was far from the first.
The United States has a sordid history of violence against Black people, with the violence perpetuated against Black citizens usually perpetuated by those in police uniform or with their acquiescence.
Almost two decades after the FBI warned about white supremacists, skinheads, and other white nationalists infiltrating police departments that were already bastions of white supremacy, police racial violence gets worse by the day.
Even as the lynchings of Black people have been seen as basically ended, police continue to lynch hundreds of Black people each year. These killings are carried out not by hanging on trees in some backwoods but by racist thugs in police uniforms using the full power and authority of the state.
No state, Democrat or Republican-run, has lifted a finger to stop it. (MB)
https://mikebeckles.com/police-kill-black-men/
JACKSON, Miss. — Deputies accused of beating and sexually assaulting two Black men before shooting one of them in the mouth, prompting a federal civil rights investigation, have been fired, a Mississippi sheriff announced Tuesday.
The announcement comes months after Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said six deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department burst into a home without a warrant. The men said deputies beat them, assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them repeatedly with Tasers in a roughly 90-minute period during the Jan. 24 episode, Jenkins and Parker said. Jenkins said one of the deputies shoved a gun in his mouth and then fired the weapon, leaving him with serious injuries to his face, tongue, and jaw.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey announced Tuesday that deputies involved in the episode had been fired, but he would not provide the names of the deputies who had been terminated or say how many law enforcement officers were fired. Bailey would not answer additional questions about January’s episode.
“Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal investigation, those deputies that were still employed by this department have all been terminated,” Bailey said at a news conference. “We understand that the alleged actions of these deputies has eroded the public’s trust in this department. Rest assured that we will work diligently to restore that trust.”
Bailey’s announcement also follows an Associated Press investigation that found several deputies who were involved with the episode were also linked to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Deputies who had been accepted to the sheriff’s office’s Special Response Team — a tactical unit whose members receive advanced training — were involved in each of the four encounters.
Deputies said the raid was prompted by a report of drug activity at the home. Police and court records obtained by the AP revealed the identities of two deputies at the Jenkins raid: Hunter Elward and Christian Dedmon. It was not immediately clear whether any of the deputies had attorneys who could comment on their behalf.
The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department after the episode. There is no body camera footage of the episode. Records obtained by The AP show that Tasers used by the deputies were turned on, turned off or used dozens of times during a roughly 65-minute period before Jenkins was shot. Jenkins and Parker have also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and are seeking $400 million in damages.