Two former #Mississippi #deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their #cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and #torturing two Black men.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Christian Dedmon, 29, to 40 years in prison and Daniel Opdyke, 28, to 17.5 years.
Lee said Dedmon carried out the most 🔸“shocking, brutal and cruel attacks imaginable” 🔸against the two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, and against a white man during a traffic stop weeks earlier.
Dedmon did not look at Jenkins and Parker as he apologized Wednesday, saying he’d never forgive himself for the pain he caused.
Jenkins, who has trouble speaking after being 💥shot in the mouth 💥during the January 2023 attack, said in a statement read by his lawyer that Dedmon’s actions were the most depraved of any of those who attacked him
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