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From The Intercept- The FBI and the Justice Department are investigating the task force after security footage emerged of a violent arrest in September.
U.S. MARSHALS ARRESTED two boys, ages 17 and 16, in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 16 on charges related to August shootings in the nearby city of Canton.
Footage of the arrest shows one officer leading a shirtless, handcuffed boy past another officer, who reaches out and hits the boy across the face, making a loud noise on impact and leaving him bleeding from his mouth or nose.
According to a lawyer representing one of the teens and his mother, both boys have said that officers physically assaulted them while they were handcuffed, including by whipping them with a green extension cord, outside the camera’s view.
The FBI and the Justice Department are investigating the arrest.