Posted on 04/17/2023 6:15:19 PM PDT by Coronal
The governor of Oklahoma has called for the resignations of the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county after they were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters — and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope.”
Gov. Kevin Stitt called for McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, county Commissioner Mark Jennings, sheriff's investigator Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix to step down after the McCurtain County Gazette-News published an article over the weekend about what was captured on the recording.
“I am both appalled and disheartened to hear of the horrid comments made by officials in McCurtain County,” Stitt said in a statement released Sunday. “There is simply no place for such hateful rhetoric in the state of Oklahoma, especially by those that serve to represent the community through their respective office.”
Stitt, a Republican, said he has ordered the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to “initiate an investigation to determine whether any illegal conduct has occurred.”
Bruce Willingham, who works for his family-owned newspaper, has turned the full audio over to the FBI and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office, his lawyers said.
Meanwhile, dozens of county residents angered by the officials' comments picketed Monday outside the headquarters of the McCurtain County Commissioners in the town of Idabel, which is about 200 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
None of the four officials named by Stitt could be reached for comment.
The Willinghams also did not respond to inquiries from NBC News. But Kilpatrick Townsend, the law firm representing the Willingham family, said they appreciated the expressions of support.
"For nearly a year, they have suffered intimidation, ridicule and harassment based solely on their efforts to report the news for McCurtain County," the statement said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Meh. That happens all the time right?
I’ve heard that AI can duplicate voices. Is this for real or AI? We’ll never know what’s real anymore.
This happened in McCurtain County in far SE corner of Oklahoma, it in Oklahoma county… big difference, it’s a whole different world down in that part of the state.. with that said, it seems corruption an immorality in running rampant in our country. Kudos to the reporter that left a recorder in the meeting room that caught them in the act. Wrong is never right!
Everything will be turned into a narrative.
Assuming it is not fake......Nowadays that is far from being a given.
Much worse is just down the road.
NBC News has cried wolf too many times.
Count me skeptical. They may not have said it at all. Or they may have said it about Murderers, not bLACKs. Or they may have said it just like reported. Till we hear it ourselves we don't know.
True that. Plenty of nasty people out there.
Here’s a transcript.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AAIMIJzXUqGecRP0M_foHOPpMoRFzvBOseE3r7MoaPs/edit
Holy frickin moley.
“This happened in McCurtain County in far SE corner of Oklahoma, it in Oklahoma county… big difference, it’s a whole different world down in that part of the state..”
I’m familiar with Wright City, Valliant, Broken Bow and Idabel though not recently. Rough country, rough men and tough women back when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Transcript ain’t a recording. The Dims tried to hang Trump on a transcript of a phone call that didn’t happen.
If this is all true, those officials are, first and foremost, stupid people. And there should be no place for stupid people in government at any level, especially the White House and Congress.
But we see that every single day.
It might be time for the War on Moron.
Will this suffice?
Transcript is not the same as a recording. I will withhold my judgement until I hear from the accused.
Here’s a recording.
If the recording is real they’re not needed in government at any level.
It IS time for the war on morons!
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