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Lexington policing discussed: Some say they see problems; others don’t
Some residents of a small Mississippi town where the Justice Department found severe problems with excessive and racially ...
Residents of a small Mississippi town respond to a scathing Justice Department report on policing
A Justice Department report on the police department in Lexington, Mississippi, has found a stunning pattern of racially ...
Cops playing by ‘own rules’ terrified Mississippi town with violent arrests, feds say
At the conclusion of the investigation, officials said they learned police frequently arrested people for low-level ...
Justice Department Says a Small Mississippi Town Ran a Dickensian Debtor's Prison
Federal investigators say police in Lexington, Mississippi, used illegal searches, excessive force, and kept residents in ...
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Justice probe finds pervasive abuse and discrimination by police in small Mississippi city
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 ...
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Mississippi Police Dept. Routinely Discriminates Against Black People: DOJ
A Mississippi police department routinely discriminated against Black people, targeting them for arrest and using excessive ...
New York Sun21h
DOJ Alleges Police Department Abuse of Power in Small-Town Mississippi Takes a Page Out of Dickens
Lexington has turned the jail into the kinds of debtors’ prisons … only this is happening in Mississippi in 2024,” U.S.
NBC News1d
Two deaths in one Massachusetts town cast doubt on the relationship between police and prosecutors
Weeks after a mistrial was declared in the high-profile murder case of Karen Read, more allegations of police misconduct surfaced in the same Massachusetts county where a former police detective ...
Small Mississippi town, police force deprive citizens of rights, Justice Department says
The City of Lexington, Miss. and its police department deprive people of their constitutional rights, discriminate against ...
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Justice Department says Mississippi town violates residents’ rights
Lexington Police Department engaged in excessive force, illegal searches and sexual harassment, the Justice Department ...
DOJ Mississippi police excessive force investigation: What We Know
The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it found a series of civil rights violations by a small-town Mississippi police ...
DOJ Finds Mississippi Police Department Violates Rights Of Black Residents
In the report, the DOJ noted that Lexington police “routinely disregard constitutional rules” when they stop and search ...