Thought This Was It’: Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ Member Sexually Assaulted Man During Traffic Stop, Then Threatened to Have Him Killed, New Lawsuit Says
A white Mississippi deputy now serving 40 years in prison for physically abusing and sexually assaulting citizens, including two Black men while part of a corrupt “Goon Squad” gang of white cops, is now being sued for pulling out his penis and rubbing it on the face and bare buttocks of another man he was arresting.
Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon also pulled out his gun and fired a round into the ground near the man’s head as the man was being held down on the ground by other deputies, the federal lawsuit filed Nov. 25 states.
The self-described “Goon Squad” was a criminal gang of Mississippi deputies who tortured, abused, shot and sodomized poor citizens, falsely accusing them of crimes.
Dedmon then followed the shooting by taking another deputy’s taser and tasering the man in the back three times.
Alan Jackson Schmidt, who is white, had been pulled over for an expired registration, according to the lawsuit filed on his behalf by attorney Trent Walker, accusing Dedmon and several other deputies of violating his Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.
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Aside from Dedmon, three of the other former deputies listed as defendants in the lawsuit, Brett McAlpin, Hunter Elward and Daniel Opdyke, are also serving lengthy prison sentences for their roles in abusing two Black men, Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, in January 2023 as well as for abusing Schmidt in December 2022.
Former Rankin County deputies Jeffrey Middleton and Joshua Hatfield, who are also serving prison sentences for their roles in abusing the Black men, are not listed in Schmidt’s lawsuit but they may be one of the seven John Does listed as defendants.
Jenkins and Parker were also tortured and sexually abused by the deputies who ordered them to strip naked and stick dildos in their mouths, as well as attempting to thrust the dildo into Jenkins’ anus.
The deputies had burst into the home of the Black men without a warrant after a neighbor complained they were staying with a white woman, spending several hours torturing the men. But the white woman was a friend of theirs they had been helping because she was disabled.
One deputy also rammed a gun into Jenkins’ mouth while he was handcuffed and fired a single shot, shattering his jaw and lacerating his tongue.
Jenkins and Parker were jailed on false drug charges, which were eventually dismissed, and the two Black men received a $2.5 million settlement in May, according to Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
“Me and Eddie in this event were called racist names,” Jenkins wrote in a statement to the judge read by his attorney during the sentencing of the deputies last year.
“We were called [n_ggers], we were called monkey, we were called boy, and we were accused of dating white women.”
Priscilla Perkins, co-president of the John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation, a nonprofit based in Jackson, Mississippi, that promotes racial reconciliation, told The New York Times in 2024 that the goon squad was carrying on the same tactics used by Mississippi cops during the Jim Crow era.
“It’s the hidden shame of Mississippi and America,” she said. “People are still trying to cover it up.”
Schmidt was pulled over on Dec. 4, 2022, for allegedly driving with an expired registration, but was then accused of possessing stolen property.
The deputies pulled him out of his car and tortured, beat and sexually assaulted him, trying to get a false confession out of him.
“Defendant Dedmon instructed Defendant Elward to force the plaintiff to his knees,” the claim states.
“At that time, Dedmon pulled out his penis and attempted to rub his penis into the face of the plaintiff,” the filing continued. “Later, Defendant Dedmon threatened to have the plaintiff killed in the jail if the plaintiff reported what happened.”
Schmidt was taken to jail but never formally charged with a crime.
“I thought this was it,” Schmidt told The New York Times last year. “I’m never going to see my family again.”
The goon squad, which was what they called themselves, was allowed to operate for two decades, abusing the poor, both white and Black people, according to a 2024 investigation by The New York Times and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.
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