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The incidents were among at least four violent encounters with Black men in Mississippi since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries, an AP investigation found.
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In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together.
Police in Mississippi are under investigation after being accused of violating the civil rights of multiple Black men since 2019.
Rankin County Sheriff's Deputies are accused of jamming guns in suspects' mouths and kneeling on a mentally ill suspect's neck.
SOURCE: (AP) — Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries, an Associated Press investigation found. Two of the men allege that Rankin County sheriff’s deputies shoved guns