Christian Dedmon, a former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy and one of six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges, enters a courtroom on April 10 in Brandon, Mississippi, to hear victims’ statements prior to being sentenced in the 2023 torture of two Black men. The judge gave the ex-officers yearslong sentences that were shorter than the federal sentences they’d already received.
A Black man in Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit this week alleging a former officer in the high-profile and highly scrutinized Mississippi “Goon Squad” in Rankin County and several other law enforcement officers set a police dog on him while he was handcuffed on the ground in 2021, resulting in several injuries.
Bobbie Adams, 41, alleged in the suit that Tony Shack, a Rankin County sheriff’s officer, unleashed his dog VooDoo on Adams after a police chase. The suit says that Christian Dedmon, an investigator with the department, falsified a report about the incident.