JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the Goon Squad have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say.

The civil rights charges were unsealed Thursday as the officers five former Rankin County sheriffs deputies and an ex-Richland police officer appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty.

The charges come after an Associated Press investigation that linked the deputies involved in the episode to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.

Court documents show that on Jan. 24, the officers burst into the home without a warrant, then handcuffed and used a stun gun on the two men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker.

The officers assaulted them with a sex object , beat them and used their stun guns repeatedly over a roughly 90-minute period. The episode culminated with one deputy placing a gun in Jenkins mouth and firing, which cut his tongue, broke his jaw and exited out his neck, the court documents said.