• 30mag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Makes you wonder how often stuff like this happens … it seems that they were only caught because they accidentally shot one of the victims.

    Actually, no. They’ve been caught before, but it didn’t quite stick. I think that makes it worse.

    From the article:

    The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has faced previous lawsuits related to police misconduct, some involving the officers named in today’s indictment.

    More details are in the article about other incidents.

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      1 year ago

      Yep, and there’s no way the shariff wasn’t aware of them. He should be held equally accountable for keeping them on the force.