Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will sentence two defendants each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after twice delaying the proceedings. Each faces the potential of decades behind bars.
I suspect this is institutional; they’re maybe the worst in the department, but they’re not abnormal either. There’s almost definitely at least some culture of this that goes beyond these 6.