The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city
FILE - A Lexington, Miss., police SUV is parked outside their department near the town square, Aug. 15, 2022. The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city. JACKSON, Miss. — — The U.S.
“Community members have offered troubling accounts of how these alleged practices have affected their lives, of injuries caused by gratuitous and excessive force, of alleged sexual assault, and of repression and reprisal," Clarke said."We know too that these allegations arise in a community that has already faced racial discrimination and economic disadvantage.”
The civil rights organization had previously obtained an audio recording of then-Lexington Police Chief Sam Dobbins using racial slurs and talking about how many people he had killed in the line of duty. Dobbins was later fired.
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