'I Thought I Was Dead': Victims of Mississippi 'Goon Squad' Officers Recount Racist Torture, Abuse

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'I Thought I Was Dead': Victims of Mississippi 'Goon Squad' Officers Recount Racist Torture, Abuse
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Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker were beaten, tasered and waterboarded during their two-hour ordeal

are speaking out about the torture, abuse and racial taunts they endured that led to the officers' criminal convictions.

“I thought I was dead,” Jenkins tells PEOPLE. “I was asking Eddie when they shot me. I said, ‘Bro, I’m dying.’ Yeah, I thought I was dead. They killed me, but I didn’t die, brother. They killed me, I just did not die.” Jenkins and Parker, who have filed a $400-million-dollar federal civil right lawsuit against the officers, were staying at the home of Parker’s childhood friend and helping with her care at the time of the incident, theAccording to the federal complaint, Rankin County Sheriff’s officers Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and Richland Police Department officer Joshua Hartfield went to the home after Brett McAlpin, the chief investigator with the...

On Monday, the officers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, among other state charges. In addition, the six men pleaded guilty to federal charges last week stemming from the same incident.

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