1 of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 40 years for racist torture of 2 Black men
A fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for his part in torturing two Black men.
Christian Dedmon was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison, hours after Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years.
Two former deputies, Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton, were sentenced Tuesday. And two more former officers will learn their fates on Thursday.
All six white men pleaded guilty to federal charges in August.
They admitted subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture in January 2023 after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman
