Police brutality: Deputies accused of threatening Black men with guns.

Several deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi are being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations after 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 obtained by the AP show that several deputies who were accepted to the sheriff's office's Special Response Team were involved in each of the four encounters. The news comes amid the broader public reckoning over race and policing sparked by the 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.