5 Mississippi deputies accused of beating, sexually assaulting 2 Black men, fired

The two men have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and are seeking $400 million in damages.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — All five Mississippi deputy sheriffs who responded to an incident where two Black men accused the deputies of beating and sexually assaulting them before shooting one of them in the mouth have been fired or resigned, authorities announced Tuesday.”

The announcement comes months after Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department burst into a home without a warrant. The men said deputies beat them,  today!

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