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JACKSON, Miss. — A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who was part of a self-described 'Goon Squad' was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year, after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman. Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who handed down a 241-month sentence.
“A message must be sent to police in Mississippi and all over America, that level of criminal conduct will be met with the harshest of consequences.” Months before federal prosecutors announced charges in August 2023, an investigation by linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.
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