JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former police officer in Mississippi received a five-year prison sentence Wednesday for the 2019 beating death of a man who was pulled from a vehicle during a manhunt.
The former Jackson detective, Anthony Fox, was sentenced by Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten. She gave him 20 years but suspended 15.
A jury on Aug. 4 convicted Fox of culpable negligence manslaughter in the death of 62-year-old George Robinson.
Two other Jackson police officers, Lincoln Lampley and Desmond Barney, were cleared of second-degree murder charges…
