Two Black men, one of whom said he was shot in the mouth by a deputy while handcuffed, plan to sue a local sheriff's department in Mississippi, claiming that deputies beat them and used waterboarding techniques and a stun gun on them during a raid in January, according to their lawyer.A letter of intent to sue, sent to Rankin County officials in February by their lawyer, Malik Shabazz, said that the men, Michael Corey Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Terrell Parker, 35, were at Mr. Parker's house in Braxton, a mostly white community about 25 miles south of Jackson, on Jan. 24, when six or seven sheriff's deputies raided the home without a warrant.
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