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Missing kayaker Melvin Emde is arrested for FAKING his own drowning on the Mississippi to escape child rape charges later that day
Police in Louisiana lulled a suspected child rapist into thinking he had got away with faking his own death on the day he was due in court. Melvin Emde, 41, was reported missing by his son after allegedly falling out of a kayak on the Mississippi River in Hahnville on August 7. ‘We immediately became quite suspicious that this may…
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Mississippi cop loses job over arrest, removal and jailing of 10-year-old boy Quantivious Eason who peed in car park while mother visited office nearby
A Mississippi cop is out of a job after police arrested and jailed a 10-year-old boy they found urinating in a car park. Senatobia police faced a torrent of criticism for their heavy-handed treatment of young Quantivious Eason when pictures circulated of the shame-faced child in the back of a police car heading for jail. Police chief Richard Chandler admitted…
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Black Mississippi boy, 10, is arrested and carted to jail after cops caught him peeing behind his mother’s car while she visited lawyer’s office
A 10-year-old African-American child was reduced to tears last week after he was arrested and hauled off to jail for urinating behind his mother’s car. Cops in Senatobia, a Mississippi town set just south of Memphis, have since apologized for the incident – with the local sheriff now calling the arresting officer’s actions an ‘error in judgement.’ The child’s mother, Latonya Eason,…
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Mistrial declared in case of men accused of shooting at Black FedEx driver | Mississippi
A Mississippi judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a white father and son who allegedly chased and shot at a Black FedEx driver in January 2022. The judge made the declaration on Thursday, citing mistakes made by a detective at Brookhaven police department. A grand jury indicted Gregory Charles Case and his son Brandon in November 2022…
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Former Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing Black men | Mississippi
In late January, a group of six white Mississippi police officers raided a house in Rankin county, a suburb outside of Jackson, and tortured two Black men for an hour and a half. The following month, the justice department opened a civil rights investigation into the Rankin county sheriff’s department, and since then, the officers have either resigned or been…
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Six former Mississippi cops known as ‘The Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing and abusing two black men during raid on their home
Six former Mississippi cops known as ‘The Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing and abusing two black men during raid on their home Rankin County Sheriff’s Office deputies and a Richland Police cop pleaded guilty Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker were ‘tortured’ in January 2023 All of the officers have since admitted both state and federal charges in…
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Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law struck down by federal appeals court | Mississippi
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era policy of permanently revoking voting rights from certain people with felony convictions, ruling that it is unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. The 2-1 panel ruling is a surprise victory from the conservative fifth circuit court of appeals just over a month after the US supreme court refused to hear…
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Massive fireball brings people to TEARS as it lights up the skies over Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida – leaving some fearing 'Armageddon'
An incredibly bright object from space tore through the sky, crash landing on Earth after lighting up the night sky over several southern states as it descended. Reports of more than 50 sightings across Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida of a massive fireball flying through the sky were recorded by the American Meteor Society. Multiple recordings of the…
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Six white Mississippi deputies fired after entering home of two black men 'tortured them for hours'
All six Mississippi deputy sheriffs who responded to an incident where two black men accused the deputies of beating and sexually assaulting them before shooting one of them in the mouth have been fired or resigned. Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department burst into a home in Rankin County,…
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