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Mesa police concluded their nearly four-month-long investigation into the city's park rangers unit. Here's what they found.
Mesa park rangers under investigation were among top overtime earners compared to seven metro Phoenix cities. Here's what ...
Police reported a group of park rangers used racial slurs and inappropriate use of force, shared a “Goon Squad” patch and carried a "challenge coin. " The investigative report described ...
Police took a patch into evidence and reported they are gray in color with the words “Ranger,” “Goon Squad,” and “Mesa, AZ” embroidered in black.
Department records and interviews with a former F.B.I. agent show that the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department had evidence of deputies’ violent acts long before the abuses of the “Goon Squad ...
6 members of the so-called Mississippi "Good Squad" were sentenced to decades in prison for the torture of 2 Black men. They were Rankin County cops.
Goon Squad officers broke into his home without a warrant after a woman sold drugs to a confidential informant and then claimed he put her up to it, he said. “I got beat down and tortured for hours.
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 22, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: From Prison, Ex-Deputy Recounts ‘Goon Squad’.
A federal judge dismissed their $400 million lawsuit Wednesday. A settlement agreement has Rankin County paying $500,000 and the county's insurance paying the policy limit of $2 million. The funding ...