The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County after several of its deputies – including some who were in a self-styled “Goon Squad” – abused and tortured two Black men in a racially charged home raid last year.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department. It's the latest fallout from the infamous "Goon Squad" case in which five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies admitted to torturing and beating two Black men in January 2023.