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Oklahoma's Sheriff Department Wants to LYNCH Black People Now
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9:05Now Playingsheriff and several officials of McCurtain County in Oklahoma were caught on tape for their racist conversation about their desire to murder journalists and lynch Black citizens. Senator Nina Turner and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on Unbossed.
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A sheriff and several officials of a rural Oklahoma county are under pressure to resign after a local newspaper recorded their racist and expletive-laden conversation about their desire to murder journalists and lynch Black citizens.
Dozens of residents of McCurtain county protested at the sheriff’s office in Idabel on Monday, echoing calls from the Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, and the city’s mayor, Craig Young, for the officials to step down.
In the recording, captured after a county commission meeting in March, and released by the McCurtain Gazette, Sheriff Kevin Clardy is heard discussing with commissioner Mark Jennings, investigator Alicia Manning and jail administrator Larry Hendrix the hiring of “mafia hitmen” one of them claimed to know to kill the newspaper’s owners and journalists.
The hitmen would, according to Jennings, “cut no fucking mercy” while Clardy offered the use of his excavator to dig graves.
But it was the group’s deeply racist commentary that angered protesters the most. Jennings cited a former county sheriff from the 1980s in a discussion about running for the office. “If it was back in the day, when Alan Marston would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell, I’d run for fucking sheriff,” he said on the recording.
“Yeah, it’s not like that no more,” Clardy lamented, before Jennings continued: “Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that any more. They got more rights than we got.”
In another snippet, the group is heard mocking a woman who died in a fire – the sheriff likened her corpse to barbecued meat.
Stitt issued a statement demanding the “immediate resignation” of the four.
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