2023-08-05 20:00:14
Six white Mississippi police officers have admitted torturing two African American men for two hours with a dildo, tasers and a sword, going so far as to shoot one of the victims in the mouth, the US Department of Justice has announced.
This case is a “horrible and striking example of bad police behavior, which has no place in our society“, castigated the representative of the ministry Kristen Clarke, denouncing acts “motivated by racial prejudice and hatred“. The six agents, some of whom admitted to belonging to a team nicknamed the “Thug Brigade“, are currently being prosecuted and are no longer in office.
In January, they entered “without warrant or justification“in a house in Braxton, to torture the two black men who were there. The police officers handcuffed them and subjected them to a torture session by uttering “racial slurs“, according to Ms. Clarke. According to the prosecution, the officers sexually assaulted their two victims with a dildo and inflicted 17 electric shocks on them with their tasers. They also humiliated them by forcing them to swallow alcohol, cooking oil, milk and other liquids.
According to Ms. Clarke, one of the two African Americans was hit with “a metal sword, a piece of wood, and a cooking utensil“. This ordeal culminated when one of the officers put his service weapon in the mouth of one of the men. To scare him, he first pulled the trigger following removing a bullet from the magazine. On a second attempt, the bullet went off and went through the victim’s neck.The police then left their victims in a pool of blood for long minutes, while they colluded to cover up the blunder.
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