- 18 Aug 2023 02:51
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A group of six (former) officers have entered guilty pleas after invading a home, without a warrant or any kind of probable cause, and torturing two men for at least 90 minutes. The only complaint they were responding to was a neighbor saying that she saw two black men staying with a white woman and that she thought this seemed suspicious.
Arriving with a plan to plant drugs and a gun, the officers broke into the home, tazed and assaulted the two men, and even staged a "mock execution" where one officer removed a bullet from his gun and dry fired into the victim's mouth. . . but then pulled the trigger again, breaking the man's jaw and almost causing him to lose his tongue. In addition to telling the two men to get back on "their side" of the river, there were of course racial slurs involved.
Ex-Mississippi law enforcement officers known as "Goon Squad" plead guilty to state charges in racist assault - CBS News
I don't approve of what these officers did, but this is a consequence of the federal level of government preventing Mississippi from enforcing its laws against interracial Caucasian-African sex. The local authorities will seek other ways to enforce the policies they want.
There are probably a long list of black men who were mistreated or wrongfully framed for crimes because they were having sex with a white woman -- and I don't just mean in a committed long-term relationship but were involved in very licentious sexual activity involving more than two people, which provoked the ire of the local authorities.
In some sense I do not feel too sorry for these black men, but I do feel sorry for them in the sense that they did not know what they were doing was wrong and had not been given notice that it was illegal.
It seems in this particular story the police went over the top.
Arriving with a plan to plant drugs and a gun, the officers broke into the home, tazed and assaulted the two men, and even staged a "mock execution" where one officer removed a bullet from his gun and dry fired into the victim's mouth. . . but then pulled the trigger again, breaking the man's jaw and almost causing him to lose his tongue. In addition to telling the two men to get back on "their side" of the river, there were of course racial slurs involved.
Ex-Mississippi law enforcement officers known as "Goon Squad" plead guilty to state charges in racist assault - CBS News
I don't approve of what these officers did, but this is a consequence of the federal level of government preventing Mississippi from enforcing its laws against interracial Caucasian-African sex. The local authorities will seek other ways to enforce the policies they want.
There are probably a long list of black men who were mistreated or wrongfully framed for crimes because they were having sex with a white woman -- and I don't just mean in a committed long-term relationship but were involved in very licentious sexual activity involving more than two people, which provoked the ire of the local authorities.
In some sense I do not feel too sorry for these black men, but I do feel sorry for them in the sense that they did not know what they were doing was wrong and had not been given notice that it was illegal.
It seems in this particular story the police went over the top.