A group of Mississippi cops terrorized residents for more than two decades almost entirely unchecked

• Six Mississippi police officers were convicted of torturing two Black men in August.
• A report from The New York Times now details several other instances of abuse over two decades.
• Business Insider previously sued the sheriff's department for records related to police brutality.

A number of deputies within the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi got away with abusing people for years, almost entirely unchecked.