Six ex-Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ officers get 15 to 45 years
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers – prosecutors said the group called themselves the “Goon Squad
Brett Morris McAlpin, formerly the fourth highest ranking deputy in the Rankin county sheriff’s department
Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 25 years. Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke were both sentenced to 20 years,
The Rankin county circuit judge Steve Ratcliff gave the men state sentences shorter than the amount of time in federal prison that they already received last month
The men were all ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and to permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.
During the federal hearing, US district judge Tom Lee sentenced Dedmon for both his role in the group attack and for an incident the month before the attack.
The Mississippi attorney general’s office brought state charges of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice against each officer in August.
The attack came after a white neighbor complained to McAlpin that Black people were staying with a white woman who owned the home in Braxton in which the assault took place
The officers kicked, waterboarded and used Tasers on the two men, while attempting to sexually assault them during the ordeal.
Opdyke and Dedmon also assaulted the two men with a sex object during the more than 90-minute assault, according to court documents.