Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.

The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following ...

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

Feds will seek to determine if the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern of violence, illegal searches and ...

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...

The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.