WaPo: “Two former law enforcement officers in Mississippi will spend years in federal prison after being sentenced Tuesday for their roles in a racist attack last year by six White officers on two Black men who were tortured and subjected to a mock execution.
Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward, 31, who shot one of the victims in the face, was sentenced to just over 20 years in prison, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to 17½ years. Both men and four other officers, all of them White, pleaded guilty last summer to federal civil rights charges that included conspiracy and deprivations of rights.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the crimes “egregious and despicable.””