Reuters
Six former law enforcement officers who prosecutors say called themselves the "Goon Squad" are expected to be sentenced this week after they pled guilty last year to U.S. civil rights charges for brutally assaulting two Black men, including shooting one in the mouth. Five of the men were Rankin County sheriff's deputies and one was a police officer in Richland, Mississippi. According to federal prosecutors, the defendants - Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Joshua Hartfield, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke - entered a home on Jan. 24, 2023, in Braxton, Mississippi, near Jackson, without a search warrant.