On April 6, the Rankin County NAACP and Attorney Trent Walker called a town hall meeting to demand that each of the Goon Squad members face maximum amount of sentencing and that Sherriff Bryan ...
The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A member of the Rankin County ‘Goon Squad’ will spend 17.5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Jeffrey Middleton on Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday ...
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the “Goon Squad ...