Justice Department investigates Rankin County Sheriff

The Rankin County Sheriff's Department will face a litany of questions from the federal government over the egregious mistreatment of two black men in 2023. BOSSIP has previously covered extensively the kidnapping, beating and sexual assault of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker by five Rankin County officers known as the “Goon Squad,” who all pleaded guilty to breaking into the men's home and carrying out an hours-long attack.

According to APNews, the Justice Department is currently investigating the Mississippi gang not only for the crimes against Jenkins and Parker, but also for years of excessive use of force, unlawful stops, searches, arrests and a possible pattern of racially discriminatory policing.

The Justice Department has received information about other disturbing incidents, including excessive use of stun guns by officers, unauthorized entry into private homes, use of “shocking racial slurs” and use of “dangerous, cruel tactics to attack people in their care,” Clarke said.

We would be remiss if we didn't mention that the reason the five deputies and a sixth officer from the Richland Police Department attacked Jenkins and Parker in the first place was because a white man called 911 to report seeing two black men with a white woman… in Mississippi. It's the year 2024 and they're still in that time period like Emmett Till. Lock them all up and throw away all the keys,