Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers – prosecutors said the group called themselves the “Goon Squad” – who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced to between 15 and 45 years in prison on Wednesday.
Brett Morris McAlpin, formerly the fourth highest ranking deputy in the Rankin county sheriff’s department, was sentenced to 20 years. Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 25 years. Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke were both sentenced to 20 years, while Hunter Elward was sentenced to 45 years and Joshua Hartfield was sentenced to 15 years.
The Rankin county circuit judge Steve Ratcliff gave the men state sentences shorter than the amount of time in federal prison that they already received last month. Their sentences will run concurrently with their federal prison sentences. The men were all ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and to permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.
White amerika and its white religion have participated in our destruction, and they have done so while yet claiming to be righteous purveyors of the Christian love ethic. This reality should tell us that we cannot cave in to the pattern of belief that mandates our powerlessness and then calls it a crime to fight back against abuse. Let us be starkly aware that as we waste time debating among ourselves on the merits of fighting back, the culture-bound immuno-depressant disorder that plagues whites with the most extreme of contradictions continues to mutate, thrive and victimize us unmercifully with a spiritual terrorism that produces in us post traumatic stress responses.
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