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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 - 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 - 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)

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)

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 - 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)