The New York Times and Mississippi Today rained more controversy down on Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey in an article published Thursday:
Two newly discovered videos taken inside the Rankin County jail show officers mocking and laughing at an intellectually disabled inmate, the same man guards had filmed days earlier being shocked in an electrified vest after he asked for a Coke. Former department employees said the videos, recorded in 2018, were shared widely on an encrypted WhatsApp group chat. The footage provides a deeper look into the culture of the jail, where a recent investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times revealed that guards and jail administrators routinely beat inmates. In one video, Larry Buckhalter stands before the camera in his prison jumpsuit and a party hat and sings “Happy Birthday” to “Barry,” an apparent reference to Barry Vaughn, the former head of the jail who is now undersheriff. In the second video, someone off camera instructs Buckhalter to “tell him you love him.” “I love you, Barry!” he says, and gleefully announces it is his last day in jail. As he speaks, a man in uniform standing behind him slams a plastic sign to the floor. Startled, Buckhalter jumps and screams as people off camera laugh.
The videos were created days after Buckhalter had asked jail guards for a Coke in October 2018. Shortly after his request, the guards strapped him into an electrified vest, intended to keep violent inmates under control. Then they filmed him screaming and convulsing while they shocked him. “Now you get a Coke!” a female guard says at the end of the video. “It’s all over! I’m so proud of you, Larry!”Rest of article, including all three videos.
The Sheriff's attorney, Jason Dare, responded to the article:
14 comments:
Couldn't write this as a fiction script if you tried.
What a disgrace for Rankin County. A permanent scar.
The governor needs to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the rankin county sheriff’s office
The Barksdalers are so powerless.
This looks to me like a-hole culture, hiding behind Bible studies and prayer breakfasts.
Local DA too busy? Or…
If these Rankin County jail employees put a shock vest and activate it, on an inmate the say they are fond of, what are they doing to the inmates they don’t like. Absolutely sick, deplorable, sadistic and ILLEGAL actions by and in The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. With video evidence, how can this not be prosecuted?
Mississippi has got to have the most corrupt law enforcement officers in the U.S. Everyday it seems something disturbing comes out. When will it stop? Get rid of these bad apples. Enough is enough. Quit letting them jump from department to department. They are no good. Integrity is a must. MLEOTA just graduated a ton of new officers. Give them the jobs.
Exactly 3:01. The worst.
The fish rots from the head down.
But yall they gave their token pet “boy” a coke after they abused him!
Just like the Niknar white trash who takes his wife to whataburger after he beats her!
Also - hidden in the background, is a case heard this week by oral argument in the Mississippi Court of Appeals of what appears to have been another beating resulting in the arrestee's death by Deputy Edleman a couple of years ago. The lawsuit filed by the family against Rankin County was (surprise, don't get shocked by this) dismissed on Summary Judgment by a Rankin County Judge, which is the basis for the appeal argument.
Reading between the "tea leaves' (as we did on the Keith Carter post above) the Rankin County Deputies killed a mentally challenged individual who had committeed a crime - not a felony, and not one that put anyone in bodily harm - during their arresting him. One of the two deputies involved has since pled guilty to lying in producing arrest records among other things; the second deputy who arrived at the party late has not beein convicted of any such crime recently, only participated in the email exchanges with others who had.
Hate to say it about Donna Barksdale and her rag, but I think they are on to something here that continues to unravel the mess going on in Stankin-Rankin and their lawless law enforcement.
Not to worry - The High Sherf, like the D.A. over in Jackson, will just pump out more press releases hyping department accomplishments and all you goobs will relax and whisper.... .
For those who don't know, there have always been cops who are mean by their own nature. There just have always been cell phones. It used to be WORSE.
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