The attorneys for the victims called for the judge to issue maximum sentences.
Eddie Parker, left, and Michael Jenkins, right, speak out with their attorney Malik Shabazz during a press conference on March 18, 2024 in Jackson, Miss.Six former Rankin County, Mississippi, law enforcement officers are set to be sentenced beginning Tuesday morning afterstemming from the racially motivated torture of two Black men during an incident that took place on Jan. 24, 2023.
During the incident, the officers beat Jenkins and Parker, sexually assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them with Tasers for roughly 90 minutes while handcuffed, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. Jenkins was also shot in the mouth by Elward, per the DOJ. The officers admitted that on Jan. 24, 2023, they entered a home where Jenkins and Parker were staying in Braxton, Rankin County, Mississippi, where they handcuffed and arrested the two men "without probable cause to believe they had committed any crime, called them racial slurs, and warned them to stay out of Rankin County," the DOJ said in a statement on Aug. 3, 2023, announcing the guilty pleas.
Parker, who is set to testify during the sentencing hearings this week, per his attorney, said that it's been a "hard year," and he's glad that the day of sentencing, which was delayed twice before, has finally come.
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