Six former Rankin County, MS, deputies are on trial for the racist torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The first of them was sentenced to 20 years.
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year. Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture.
The terror began on Jan. 24, 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence. A white person phoned Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves 'The Goon Squad.
The officers warned Jenkins and Parker to 'stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ‘their side’ of the Pearl River,' court documents say, referencing an area with higher concentrations of Black residents. In the gruesome crimes committed by men tasked with enforcing the law, federal prosecutors saw echoes of Mississippi’s dark history, including the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers after a deputy handed them off to the Ku Klux Klan.
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