{"id":341076,"date":"2021-10-07T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=372592"},"modified":"2021-10-07T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:56:15","slug":"video-shows-u-s-marshals-task-force-brutalizing-teenage-boys-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/07\/video-shows-u-s-marshals-task-force-brutalizing-teenage-boys-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows U.S. Marshals Task Force Brutalizing Teenage Boys in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. marshals arrested<\/u> two boys, ages 17 and 16, in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 16 on charges related to August shootings<\/a> in the nearby city of Canton. Footage of the arrest shows one officer leading a shirtless, handcuffed boy past another officer, who reaches out and hits\u00a0the boy across the face, making a loud noise on impact and leaving him bleeding from his mouth or nose. According to a lawyer representing one of the teens and his mother, both boys have said that officers physically assaulted them while they were handcuffed, including by whipping them with a green extension cord, outside the camera’s view. The\u00a0FBI and the Justice Department are investigating the arrest.<\/p>\n

The officers are part of the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, a federally funded unit that shot and killed<\/a> a 20-year-old man in Memphis, Tennessee, while serving a warrant for a Mississippi shooting in 2019. Established in 2006, the task force<\/a> operates in Alabama and Mississippi and deputizes state and local officers as marshals, offering them expanded powers to target people wanted for violent crimes. Their conferred status provides them with privileges including the ability to work across jurisdictions and make arrests without warrants. The marshals do not wear body cameras.<\/p>\n