Six former Mississippi police officers are due to be sentenced for torturing two black men in their own home. The victims were beaten, shocked with stun guns and sexually assaulted by the officers who burst in without a warrant in 2023. One of them was also shot in the mouth. The group, which dubbed itself the "Goon Squad", pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offences in August. They are all due to be sentenced this week, starting today.
Subsequent investigations by the New York Times, Mississippi Today and the Associated Press found that the 2023 incident was part of a larger pattern of violent police misconduct spanning decades.
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