Rankin County Sheriff’s Deputies are accused of jamming guns in suspects’ mouths and kneeling on a mentally ill suspect’s neck.
Damien Cameron died after being tased and punched during a 2021 arrest at his mom’s house.One of the police-involved killings of a suspect in Rankin County invoked the Floyd murder, as a mother of the dead suspect claimed a deputy kneeled on her son’s neck while he told them he couldn’t breathe.
His mother Monica Lee said she witnessed deputies kneeling on his neck and back while he said he couldn’t breathe.Before the cops were set to transport Cameron to the police station, Lee said she went outside to check on him. Cops had claimed that Jenkins had pointed a gun at them but police officials declined to say if a weapon was found on the scene. Jenkins’ lawyer Malik Shabazz refutes that accusation.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation found that a cop fired the shot in Jenkins’ mouth at 11:45 p.m. — 99 minutes after the first Taser was deployed. It did not identify the deputy who pulled the trigger. An emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska said the thuggish tactic is unacceptable under any circumstance for an officer and the fact that it allegedly happened twice was not a coincidence.
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