The Department of Justice announced on Sept. 19 that it would be conducting an investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department.

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County after several of its deputies – including some who were in a self-styled “Goon Squad” – abused and tortured two Black men in a racially charged home raid last year.

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing two Black men.

The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were sentenced to federal prison.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following a racist attack on two Black men by white officers.  The

"We will continue this transparency and will fully cooperate with all aspects of this investigation," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up by six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers, the U.S. Justice Department has launched a pattern or practice investigation into Rankin County,

Put simply, the concerns about the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad.”

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of discrimination in the department.