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Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are awaiting sentencing according to the article. Pleaded guilty to a bunch of felonies each of them.

Can't say yet that the punishment will be appropriate though cause we don't know it yet.

[–] zaph 1 points 1 year ago

So far everything I've read is saying 5 years. Two 5 year sentences running concurrently.