Sentencing has concluded for the six white former officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men.

High-ranking former deputy Brett McAlpin, 53, received a sentence of about 27 years and was the fifth former law enforcement officer sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee after pleading guilty to the attack. The assault involved beatings, the repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth in a mock execution. The final member of the group, 32-year-old former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, was given a sentence of about 10 years Thursday afternoon.

The terror began Jan. 24, 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence when a white person in Rankin County complained to McAlpin that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton. McAlpin told Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies asking if they were “available for a mission.”

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      7 months ago

      one of the officers

      lets be clear here, one of the officers involved. theres an entire agency of goons who are aware of these activities, and they all still have jobs.

      acab

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      I don’t see a glimmer of conscience in any of those pictures. I’d bet one of them was caught in a lie and was too dumb to shut up or think their way out of it (for which my bet is on contestant #6).

      Not that baseless speculation is good for anything but killing a few minutes.

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        7 months ago

        According to the article, it was #5, for what it’s worth.

        Opdyke was the first to admit what they did, his attorney Jeff Reynolds said Wednesday.

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        I’d bet one of them was caught in a lie and was too dumb to shut up or think their way out of it

        I’ll take that bet. I think he didn’t bother lying because he was so accustomed to everyone agreeing with their horrible ways.