Some residents of a small Mississippi town where the Justice Department found severe problems with excessive and racially ...
A Justice Department report on the police department in Lexington, Mississippi, has found a stunning pattern of racially ...
At the conclusion of the investigation, officials said they learned police frequently arrested people for low-level ...
Federal investigators say police in Lexington, Mississippi, used illegal searches, excessive force, and kept residents in ...
The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it found a series of civil rights violations by a small-town Mississippi police ...
The Lexington Police Department “has created a system where officers can relentlessly violate the law," according to the Justice Department, which found a stunning pattern of racially disparate ...
A Mississippi police department routinely discriminated against Black people, targeting them for arrest and using excessive ...
Lexington has turned the jail into the kinds of debtors’ prisons … only this is happening in Mississippi in 2024,” U.S.