Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, Kristen Clarke, left, addresses reporters from a monitor during a news conference following a court hearing where six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers plead guilty to federal civil rights offenses in federal court, in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. The six former officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men in a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
