Four former Mississippi police officers were sentenced yesterday Wednesday and Thursday to serve 10 to 40 years in prison for the gruesome torture they subjected two African-Americans to in January 2023. A total of six white former police officers from this southern American state who were involved in the case confessed their guilt in August. They tortured the victims for almost two hours, using a dummy penis, a taser, a sword and finally a gun. One of them went so far as to put his service weapon in the other's mouth and shoot, breaking his jaw. The officer in question, Hunter Elward, 31, was sentenced Monday to serve 20 years in prison. His colleague Geoffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to serve 17.5 years in prison. Two others, Christian Dedmon, 2, and Daniel Opdike, 28, were sentenced last Wednesday to serve 40 and 17 years in prison, respectively. The first was sentenced to the heaviest punishment because he committed the worst torture of a sexual nature. THE […]
Source: News Beast
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