A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past

Pieces of a Confederate monument are secured onto a flatbed truck Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, after a crew removed them from the spot where the monument had stood since 1910, in downtown Grenada, Miss.

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County after several of its deputies – including some who were in a self-styled “Goon Squad” – abused and tortured two Black men in a racially charged home raid last year.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth,

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.