Police brutality: Deputies accused of putting guns in mouths of Black men.

Deputies from a Mississippi sheriff's department are being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations after being involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Two of the men allege that deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters. The heavily redacted documents don't indicate if the deputies were serving in their normal capacity or as members of the tactical unit. The news comes amid the broader public reckoning over race and policing sparked by the 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.