Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker have been the topic of intensive BOSSIP protection since March 2023, when information in regards to the abuse that each males suffered by the hands of Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies started to flow into nationally. The 2 Black males from Mississippi have been crushed, tortured, and sexually abused by a bunch of “law enforcement officials”, Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton, Christian Dedmon, Daniel Opdyke, Brett McAlpin, and ex-Richland cop Joshua Hartfield, who dubbed themselves “Goon Squad”. When all was stated and carried out, all six “males” have been sentenced to a complete of 137 years in jail for the violence that they inflicted on two harmless brothas.
Pigs in jail definitely qualifies as justice, however within the phrases of the illustrious orator Kendrick Lamar, it’s not sufficient.
Honestly, nothing could make these two males complete once more. The phobia they skilled will probably hang-out them for the remainder of their lives; nonetheless, it’s incumbent upon society to exhaust all efforts to offer affordable restitution to them. In response to WJTV, an settlement to that finish has been reached…
A Rankin County Sheriff’s Workplace protection legal professional named Jason Dare has introduced that the RCSO has settled the civil lawsuit filed in opposition to it by the 2 males for $2.5 million. The pair had initially filed a $400 million go well with in opposition to each the county and Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey. Jenkins and Parker’s legal professional’s launched a joint assertion in response to the settlement:
On behalf of the victims, we plead for the general public to have them and their households have their privateness with a purpose to heal.
Within the identify of justice, and on behalf of different victims of the Rankin County Goon Squad, we hope their circumstances might be resolved quickly and permit Rankin County and the State of Mississippi can flip a brand new and higher web page in policing and racial relations.
A call has not but been made to proceed with civil judgments in opposition to the person officers, however it’s chance.
President of the NAACP Rankin County chapter, Angela English, spoke to MPBonline in regards to the “insulting” greenback quantity of the settlement:
“However, alternatively, the truth that they have been capable of get something, together with the convictions of all white officers in Rankin County, is historic. On the very least, it’s been established that the low down atrocities the Rankin County ‘good ole boys’ have been doing will now not be tolerated by African People in Rankin County. We hope the state and county can flip a brand new, and higher, web page in policing and race relations.”
We hope that every one “Goon Squad” victims get monetary compensation and that they will all heal from the trauma they’ve endured.
