Phillip Jackson is a social justice reporter with HuffPost. Before this, he worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun. Jackson has appeared on MSNBC with Lawrence O'Donnell and has worked in Philadelphia and Memphis covering policing, race and protests. Phillip can be reached at phillip.jackson@huffpost.
From top left: former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke, as well as former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, are shown at a court in Brandon, Mississippi , on Aug. 14, 2023.sentenced six Mississippi law enforcement officers on state charges for the torture of two Black men during a no-warrant home raid.
Dedmon was also sentenced on burglary and home invasion charges. McAlpin, Middleton and Opdyke were sentenced on charges related to hindering prosecution. Jenkins and Parker filed a $400 million lawsuit against Bailey and the sheriff’s office last year, alleging that Bailey was complicit in the criminal acts of the deputies he oversaw.
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