Following the guilty plea from Mississippi Police Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Daniel Opdyke, and Joshua Hartfield to 16 different felonies,
Following the guilty plea from Mississippi Police Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Daniel Opdyke, and Joshua Hartfield to 16 different felonies, victims Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker spoke with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman about their experiences. The traumatic event took place on January 24th where deputies raided a home after a white neighbor of one of the officers called in to complain about the Black men staying there. That night, the officers burst into the home, handcuffed, beat, tasered, sexually abused Jenkins and Parker. Not only were they also waterboarded but one of the officers shot Jenkins in the mouth after a “mock execution.” “I feel great that we’re finally getting justice, after months. You know, at first, they didn’t even believe us,” said Jenkins “For a while, l didn’t think they were going to even get a slap on the wrist or anything. But I feel great about it.” Civil rights attorney Malik Shabazz said that...