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The ‘Goon Squad’ Case Yielded Stiff Federal Sentences. Still, Some Black Mississippians Wonder How Much Has Really Changed

By Emma Tucker, CNN Rankin County, Mississippi (CNN) — On the eve of the final two federal sentencing hearings last month in the case of a pair of Black men tortured by six White law enforcement officers, a cousin of Emmett Till’s mother thought of her own son. “I haven’t talked to him today, and that’s unusual,” Priscilla […]

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