Today “is a day we’ve long awaited,” attorney Malik Shabazz said after six White former Mississippi officers were sentenced in state court for torturing and abusing his clients Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins.
The court has “given out justice,” Shabazz said.
In departing from the initial recommendations of “low” prison sentences for the squad, the judge “set a new standard here in Rankin County, that police brutality will not be tolerated in Rankin County,” Shabazz said.
Jenkins also reacted to the sentencing, telling reporters that it’s been “a long time coming.”
CNN’s Emma Tucker contributed reporting to this post.
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