RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - The Justice Department has opened a civil pattern or practice investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. According ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia (NNPA Newswire) – The U.S. Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation into Rankin County ...

Attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker sued the Rankin County Sheriff's Department last year on behalf of the two victims, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The suit is still ...

By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story October 2, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — After more than three decades of trailblazing service, Judge Clarease Rankin Yates has ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.“To determine if they engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the ...

A Justice Department investigation this year found that Rankin County deputies chose the name Goon Squad “because of their willingness to use excessive force and not report it.” ...

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department where a self-described “Goon Squad” of deputies has been accused of ...

The probe in Rankin County marks the Justice Department’s 12th pattern-or-practice investigation into state or local law enforcement agencies since Attorney General Merrick Garland took office.

The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force and whether it used racially discriminatory policing ...

With a population of approximately 157,000 of which more than 71% are white, Rankin County has the smallest Black population (about 21%) of any county in the Jackson Metropolitan Area.

The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department is the 11th law enforcement agency in the U.S. to come under a Justice Department investigation since 2021, Clarke said.