FROM WHAT SEWER DID THEY RECRUIT THESE SORRY ASS COPS ..... THEY SHOULD ALL BE SENT TO PRISON!

Six white Mississippi deputies are fired after they entered home of two black men and 'tortured them for hours' before putting gun in one's mouth and shooting him

Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker claim Rankin County Sheriff's deputies forcefully entered the home without a warrant. Pair say deputies subjected them to beatings, sexual assault using a sex toy,  repeated Taser shocks, poured milk over them and shot one in the mouth

 

By James Gordon and Associate Press

 

Daily Mail

June 28, 2029

 

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said that all the deputies involved in the episode had been fired, and some had already resigned

 

Six Mississippi deputy sheriffs have been fired or resigned after they were accused by two black men of beating and sexually assaulting them before shooting one in the mouth.

Michael Corey Jenkins, 32, and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, 35, said deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff's Department burst into a home in Rankin County, just east of the state capital of Jackson, without a warrant. 

The men said deputies beat them, assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them repeatedly with Tasers in a roughly 90-minute period during the January 24 episode, Jenkins and Parker said.

Jenkins said one of the deputies shoved a gun in his mouth and then fired the weapon, leaving him with serious injuries to his face, a lacerated tongue and broken jaw. He was hospitalized for weeks. 

 

Michael Corey Jenkins, one of  two black men - one of whom was shot in the mouth by a law enforcement officer filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Mississippi sheriff's dept.

Parker told how on the night in question, the deputies suddenly came into the home where Parker was living and proceeded to handcuff and beat them

Michael Jenkins, second from right, stands with his mother, Mary Jenkins, center, and their attorneys in February following his release from the hospital after being shot by sheriff's 

 

Parker said he was sitting in his bedroom at about 10pm that night when he heard loud talking coming from the home's living room. 

He claimed he opened his door and saw deputies in the hallway, and they immediately ordered him to get down on the floor and proceeded to handcuff and beat them. 

At one point the pair were forced to lie on their backs as the deputies poured milk over their faces, he added.

Parker said he struggled 'to keep breathing and keep from drowning at the same time.'

'There was milk coming out of my nose, my mouth,' Parker told The Associated Press in an interview. 'I've never been in that position and felt the way that I felt that night.'

Jenkins, who has trouble speaking because of his injuries, said that he was on his knees at the end of the ordeal when one of the deputies stood over him. 

The deputy placed the barrel of a gun in Jenkins' mouth, it fired and the bullet exited behind one of Jenkins' ears. 

The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department after the episode.

 

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said he immediately sought a state investigation following the incident

A deputy placed the barrel of a gun in Jenkins' mouth, it fired and the bullet exited behind one of his ears

Jenkins said one of the deputies shoved a gun in his mouth and then fired the weapon, leaving him with serious injuries to his face, a lacerated tongue and broken jaw. He was hospitalized for weeks

At one point the pair were forced to lie on their backs as the deputies poured milk over their faces. Parker, pictured, said he struggled 'to keep breathing and keep from drowning at the same time'

 

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said that he immediately sought a state investigation at the time. 

On Tuesday he announced that all the deputies involved in the episode had been fired, and some had already resigned. 

He refused to provide the names of the deputies who had been terminated nor would he say how many law enforcement officers were fired. 

Bailey also refused to answer additional questions about the episode.

'Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal investigation, those deputies that were still employed by this department have all been terminated,' Bailey said at a news conference. 

'We understand that the alleged actions of these deputies has eroded the public's trust in the department. Rest assured that we will work diligently to restore that trust.'

 

Jenkins, pictured, and Parker have also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and are seeking $400 million in damages

 

Bailey's announcement also follows an Associated Press investigation that found several deputies who were involved with the episode were also linked to at least four violent encounters with black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. 

A second man besides Jenkins also alleges that deputies shoved guns into his mouth. 

Deputies who had been accepted to the sheriff's office's Special Response Team - a tactical unit whose members receive advanced training - were involved in each of the four encounters.

Deputies said the raid was prompted by a report of drug activity at the home.  

Jenkins was charged with possessing between 2 and 10 grams of methamphetamine and aggravated assault on a police officer. 

Parker was charged with two misdemeanors: possession of paraphernalia and disorderly conduct. Deputies have not said whether they obtained a warrant to search the home. 

Police and court records revealed the identities of two deputies at the Jenkins raid: Hunter Elward and Christian Dedmon. 

It was not immediately clear whether any of the deputies had attorneys who could comment on their behalf.

Jason Dare, an attorney representing the Rankin County Sheriff's Department, said the department knows of five deputies who conducted the Jenkins raid. 

Jenkins and his attorney have said six deputies were at the home. All five identified by the department were either fired or resigned.

There is no body camera footage of the episode. 

Jenkins has said he didn't know the name of the deputy who shot him. 

Parker, Shabazz and attorney Trent Walker claim it was Deputy Hunter Elward, based partly on a separate court document in which Elward swore that Jenkins had pointed a gun at him. In addition, Parker said he recognized Elward from online photos of the deputy. 

Records obtained by the AP show that Tasers used by the deputies were turned on, turned off or used dozens of times during a roughly 65-minute period before Jenkins was shot.

Jenkins and Parker have also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and are seeking $400 million in damages. 

The allegations against the deputies have sparked a Justice Department probe into the encounter. 

 

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, says the Justice Department is still investigating the January raid that led to the shooting of Michael Corey Jenkins by Mississippi sheriff's deputies

 

In a statement Tuesday, Malik Shabazz, an attorney representing Jenkins and Parker, celebrated the firing of the officers and called for criminal indictments of deputies by the state attorney general and the Justice Department.

In a community meeting in Mississippi on June 1, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division said the investigation is still ongoing. 

'The firing of the Rankin County Mississippi Sheriff's deputies involved in the torture and shooting of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker is a significant action on the path to justice for one of the worst law enforcement tragedies in recent memory,' Shabazz said.

'Sheriff Bryan Bailey has finally acted after supporting much of the bloodshed that has occurred under his reign in Rankin County.

'If there ever were a case where punitive damages needed to be levied against police officers, this is the case,' attorney Shabazz said earlier this month. 

'This incredible, nasty, violent ordeal exposes that Rankin County deputies and the Department have had a long pattern and practice of deadly excessive force and hate crimes against its African American citizens.'