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
