2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
Associated Press/Report for America

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 of them each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated torture in January 2023. An attorney for Jenkins and Parker is calling for the “stiffest of sentences.” The former officers have agreed to what prosecutors recommended, ranging from five to 30 years.