terrell parker.officers also sexually abused them with an object while shouting racial slurs. one of the officers put a gun in jenkins' mouth for a mock execution and pulled the trigger. the bullet lacerated his tongue, broke his jaw, and exited through his neck. the officers then planted drugs at the scene in an attempt to cover up their act. the attack occurred in the majority-white rankin county, which is about 20 miles away from majority-black jackson, mississippi. some of the officers were also sentenced for their role in a separate assault, just two weeks earlier, when another member of the goon squad repeatedly tased a man and pressed his genitals in his mouth. while the charges focused on these two cases, "the new york times" and "mississippi today" have revealed that deputies in the rankin county sheriff's department have for decades barged into homes, handcuffed people, and tortured them for information or confessions. u.s. attorney general merrick garland issued a statement thursday saying