Michael jenkins and eddie parker

Two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in torturing two Black men.

Hunter Elward was sentenced by U. District Judge Tom Lee, who handed down a month sentence. Lee 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. In January , the group of six burst into a Rankin County home without a warrant and assaulted Jenkins and Parker with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects. Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.

Michael jenkins and eddie parker

We write the untold stories of Black America. Sign up for our free newsletter to read them each week. Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker will bravely walk into a federal courtroom in Mississippi this week to face six former Rankin County law enforcement officers who tortured them for hours. The nowyear-old stood stronger than he did a year ago when Capital B first interviewed him weeks after he was released from the hospital. The thin man had large white gauze pads and medical tape surrounding most of his neck to cover where the bullet exited. Speaking appears to still be a challenge for him. The bullet caused permanent brain damage and sliced through his tongue that was surgically removed due to the damage, his attorney previously told Capital B. On Tuesday, Hunter Elward, the deputy who shot Jenkins, and Jeffrey Middleton were the first to be sentenced in connection with the unthinkable crimes that occurred on Jan. Elward received 20 years; Middleton got 17 years and six months. The judge has the discretion to have the sentences run consecutively.

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On January 24, , six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, for around an hour and a half at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that Jenkins and Parker had entered a home with a white woman. The Richland officer was Narcotics Investigator Josh Hartfield, who was off duty at the time of the home invasion. The family of one of those killed had a pending lawsuit against the sheriff's office at the time. The New York Times and Mississippi Today investigated a number of brutality accusations against the Rankin County Sheriff's Office since , verifying 17 of them involving 22 victims with 20 deputies present at one or more incident.

Four other former law enforcement officers who admitted to torturing Jenkins and Parker are set to be sentenced later this week — two on Wednesday and two on Thursday. Before sentencing Elward and Middleton separately, U. The terror began on Jan. The group of six burst into a Rankin County home without a warrant and assaulted Jenkins and Parker with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects. Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns. After Elward shot Jenkins in the mouth, they devised a coverup that included planting drugs and a gun. False charges stood against Jenkins and Parker for months. Last March, months before federal prosecutors announced charges in August, an investigation by The Associated Press linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.

Michael jenkins and eddie parker

The shooting of a Black man in Mississippi during a drug raid is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation, the U. Department of Justice announced. As this is an ongoing investigation, we are not able to comment further at this time. The incident at the center of the probe involved a late-night drug raid in Rankin County on Jan. During the raid, year-old Michael Corey Jenkins suffered a bullet wound to the face. The police involved in the incident say the shot occurred after someone pointed a gun at the officers.

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The intruders brandished guns. The homeowner, Kristi Walley, was a childhood friend of Parker, who had helped care for her since she became paralyzed at age Court papers identified Hunter Elward as one of the Goon Squad members. The disgraced former law enforcement officers may also owe millions of dollars in court fines, according to figures tallied by the Associated Press. Sentences should be proportionate to the crime at hand, which is to say it should be severe, particularly when the devastating abuse of power and erosion of public trust are considered. An investigation by The Associated Press published in March linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Sign In Create your free profile. Dedmon and Elward fired shots—Dedmon at a wall and then outside during the mock-execution phase of the evening, Elward through the mouth of Jenkins. Jenkins suffered a lacerated tongue and broken jaw. These officers dishonored their badges, their fellow officers and their duty to the public. By The Associated Press.

Sign up for Democracy Now! We speak with Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker about how, on January 24, six deputies in Braxton, Mississippi, raided the home they were staying in and attacked them, and how they are speaking out to demand justice.

Michael Jenkins is seen here in an undated picture in a hospital bed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center while receiving treatment. By The Associated Press. Report a correction or typo. Police brutality. Jenkins nodded in the affirmative, CNN reported. They pulled him from the car and beat him. He set it down beside Jenkins, who was still seriously wounded and without medical attention. Our past just makes it cheaper and easier to score points on our present than most places. Braxton , Mississippi. The officers referred to the men with racial slurs and told them to "go back to Jackson or 'their side' of the Pearl River ". Get more news Live on. They also agreed to prosecutor-recommended sentences ranging from five to 30 years in state court.