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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Police in small Mississippi city discriminate against Black residents, Justice Department finds
Police in small Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force, Justice Department probe finds.
Justice probe finds pervasive abuse and discrimination by police in small Mississippi city
A Justice Department investigation has found that police in a majority Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black ...
Justice Department probe finds Mississippi police force violated residents’ civil rights
An investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that a police department in the majority-Black city of Lexington, ...
US Justice Dept finds abuses by Mississippi police department
The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it found a series of civil rights violations by a small-town Mississippi police ...
Justice Department finds Lexington, Miss., police ran illegal ‘debtor’s prison’
A police department in Lexington, Miss., has engaged in the use of excessive force, jailed suspects improperly and targeted ...
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 ...
New York Sun19h
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.
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 ...
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 ...