Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is running for reelection unopposed even after a "goon squad" of his deputies pleaded guilty to torturing Black men.

A Mississippi sheriff who oversees a department where five deputies were convicted of torturing two Black men earlier this year — and where at least five people died in its custody in 2021 — is running for reelection unopposed.

Malik Shabazz, an attorney for the two men tortured in January, told a CBS affiliate in Jackson on Tuesday that he believes the problem extends beyond the group of officers who pleaded guilty and that the sheriff, Bryan Bailey, should be removed from office.

“We must press for the maximum sentence for this hate crime, and we must continue to press for the removal of Bryan Bailey as sheriff,” Shabazz said. Activists in Rankin County have also been calling for the sheriff to resign.

For now, Bailey remains on the ballot in November, according to the Rankin County elections website. Bailey received a total of 22,850 votes in the Republican primary on August 8. He’ll be running unopposed though there is an option to write in a candidate.

          • AngrilyEatingMuffins
            1•11 months ago

            There was a thread dunking on Nazis and an admin came in, locked the thread and told people to be nice to everyone regardless of their ideology. They refused to defederate from exploding heads for a very long time, preemptively defederated from hexbear (whatever your thoughts about the instance it’s deeply weird they didn’t want to defed the Nazis but immediately defederated from the weirdo lefties)

            The guy who blew the whistle on the piracy forums was an out and obvious nazi. They didn’t ban him after his obvious naziness went on display.

            It’s not really an outlandish thing to suggest. They clearly are much more biased towards fascists than leftists, at the very least - which is highly questionable and problematic on a leftist-literally-by-design site.

          • @can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            They commented on kbin but it didn’t federate yet:

            There was a thread dunking on Nazis and an admin came in, locked the thread and told people to be nice to everyone regardless of their ideology. They refused to defederate from exploding heads for a very long time, preemptively defederated from hexbear (whatever your thoughts about the instance it’s deeply weird they didn’t want to defed the Nazis but immediately defederated from the weirdo lefties)

            The guy who blew the whistle on the piracy forums was an out and obvious nazi. They didn’t ban him after his obvious naziness went on display.

            It’s not really an outlandish thing to suggest. They clearly are much more biased towards fascists than leftists, at the very least - which is highly questionable and problematic on a leftist-literally-by-design site.

            No links to the threads they talk about though.