Six officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing two Black men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of them
Six officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing two Black men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of them
Six Rankin County law enforcement officers pleaded guilty Tto federal charges of torturing two Black men and shooting one in the mouth.
"Using a sex toy on them" When are we going to start referring to sexual assault of men as what it is?
I mean, it's sexual assault obviously, but in this case, "using a sex toy on them" provides a bit more context than just generically labeling it as "sexual assault". Sexual assault could be many different things.
The article also goes on to describe that they put the sex toys in the men's mouth. I think the "used a sex toy on them" is just more descriptive in this situation, because if they used "sexual assault", people would not be able to decipher what these POS officers actually did.
I do agree that the media can be terrible about minimizing sexual assault on men, but in this case I think the headline is more descriptive. Also , fuck these racist rapist cops.
He wasn’t raped. He was subjected to enhanced interrogation. Besides, they sprinkled some crack on him so it’s all good.
"Raped with a sex toy" is more descriptive and accurate and almost the same length (shorter even) as "used a sex toy on them."
Because just referring to it as sexual assault, might portray that these cops where gay, and we can't have none of that.
/s
Yeah we all know how masculine the police in the US are. What’s more manly than a bunch of men compensating for their small penises by randomly killing civilians!
Had to stop reading. I have no words.
Insane. Fucking disgusting.
They didn’t include it in the article, but this fuckin “good squad” was called to the place because “two black men were staying with a white woman.” Thats was the call.
Who the fuck made that call? They obviously knew this type of outcome was likely, because that’s not fucking illegal. No one makes that call without knowing these types of fucking scum would be responding. So where the fuck is that indictment.
I heard an NPR piece on it last week, and that was more than enough for me. When are we going to start holding law enforcement to a higher standard than everyone else? Instead of qualified immunity, we should start saying that an officer found guilty of a crime gets double the punishment of a regular citizen. Yes, that means fewer people will want the job - I'm okay with that.
They should be forced to carry malpractice insurance just like a doctor.
Many cops make up to 300k a year with overtime. They can afford it.
Before reading: “Wow, what a sensationalist headline!”
After reading: “Somehow that headline underplayed it.”
The article doesn't even mention that the shooting happened during a forced game of Russian roulette.
It kinda does, but it doesn't make sense:
After removing a bullet from the chamber of his gun, Elward stuck a gun into Jenkins’ mouth and pulled the trigger. The gun clicked. Then he racked the slide, only this time, the gun fired a bullet
Usually Russian Roulette involves removing all of the bullets except one. This shitbag removed just one bullet. But most importantly, Russian Roulette is done with a revolver and the mention of a slide indicates it wasn't a revolver.
So... I don't know what happened here. Did this Elward shithead say he was going to do a Russian Roulette thing but didn't understand how any of that works?
I don't tend to make generalizations about a whole department but I seriously question if Rankin county is better off without a sheriff's department entirely.
Im sure most communities would be a lot safer without any police
ACAB
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CRUMBS
What the fuck did I just read...
White supremacist gang shit.
If I saw it in a movie I wouldn’t be able to suspend my disbelief.
This is America.
I mean... is it wrong to hope these goon fucks get what's coming to them in prison?
"what's coming to them in prison" is just another indictment of our broken society.
Yes, it's wrong. It's understandable to want retribution, but it doesn't help improve the situation. We need to be better than that, even when our gut reaction is, "to hope these goon fucks get what's coming to them in prison?"
"Prison was fine, I didn't mind prison. Except for the anal rape part. Yah, that part I didn't enjoy much, that anal rape thing."
- Norm MacDonald
considering the prison system creates more crime, yes it's wrong
I don't often advocate for the death penalty, but fuck these pigs. They don't deserve to live. That or solitary life imprisonment.
on one hand, I wish I wouldn't have to read those headlines because it depresses me
on the other hands, there's no point in muting that information, because people should know those things and should be angry
I thought "we should read good news", and then /r/upliftingnews appeared and it was just a rose-colored glasses thing.
we actually need to hear bad news to make people react.
I want to hear good news when we actually fix things. I don't want to ignore bad news or to have news mischaracterized as good.
Shades of the Abner Louima case.
This is revolting.
Also, his life was heartbreaking too.
He had been trained as an electrical engineer in Haiti, but in New York, Louima was unable to get a position related to his education. He worked as a security guard in a water and sewage plant in the Flatlands area of Brooklyn."
The sad reality of the name of the newspaper being so true. This is Mississippi today. Not 400 years ago, or 60...today.
Oh so normal policing in the US. Got it.
Jesus Christ on a cracker. I thought the headline was bad, and the article made it so much worse. I don’t even have words.
Gut these pigs and let em hang.
Hot damn is this real justice happening in Mississippi! Drain the swamp would be used in the proper context here. Monsters dressed as police officers actually being fired and facing time in prison. It's a terrible story, but I'm happy to see the long dick of the federal law is swinging down that far south.