It’s rare for law enforcement officers in Mississippi be charged with brutality, although authorities typically investigate several cases each year of shootings by police. Pearl is in Rankin County, where six white former law enforcement officers—including some who called themselves the “Goon Squad”—pleaded guilty last year to federal charges in a racist assault on two Black men.
“You’re fixin’ to go in there and you’re going to lick that p—— up,” Green said, according the court document. “Do you understand me?”
Michael Christian Green, 26, lost his job as a Pearl Police Department patrol officer in late December, four days after security cameras showed the violent encounter in Pearl, a suburb of the capital city of Jackson.
Green—who has a large cross tattooed on one arm and the word “Blessed” tattooed on the other—stood calmly before a federal magistrate judge Thursday and did not dispute any of the accusations read aloud by a federal prosecutor
In places like that Christianity isn’t about following the teachings of a rabbi from 2000 years ago, but about demonstrating in group status. The frequent use of the word “blessed” signifies that imo. It’s not an acknowledgment of the struggle to be holy, but an assertion that their god loves them.
As an ex catholic it’s fucking wild. Especially because they tend to have the most sociopathic interpretation of sola gratia
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