The discovery is being dressed up as an accident, softened into an artifact, and framed as a harmless “window into history” as if this were something distant, contained, and safely behind us.
Alan Schmidt filed a federal lawsuit against the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and "Goon Squad" deputies, accusing them of torture.
Mississippi Goon Squad member, Brett McAlpin, is asking for his sentence to be reduced after pleading guilty to torturing two Black men.
Federal prosecutors have widened a brutality probe of a Mississippi police department.