U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland meets with U.S Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Todd Gee, not pictured, and local law enforcement representatives, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (Jerry Mitchell/Mississippi Today via AP)
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, center, meets with U.S Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Todd Gee, second from right, and local law enforcement representatives, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (Jerry Mitchell/Mississippi Today via AP)
FILE - Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division at a news conference, Nov. 8, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a case that drew condemnation from top U.S. law enforcement officials. The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force and whether it used racially discriminatory policing practices, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - This combination of photos shows former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to state and federal charges for torturing two Black men, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, during court appearances Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Brandon, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Lead civil attorney Malik Shabazz, second from right, speaks to reporters while his clients, Michael Corey Jenkins, right, and Eddie Terrell Parker, second from left, stand with their local attorney Trent Walker, outside the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 19, 2024, following the sentencing of the second of six former Mississippi Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on Parker and Jenkins in 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Angela English, president of the NAACP chapter in Rankin County, Miss., speaks in the hallway of the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)