An Oklahoma county commissioner who was secretly recorded reportedly talking about killing reporters and lynching Black residents after a public meeting has resigned, the governor’s office says.
after a public meeting has resigned, according to the governor’s office.
McCurtain County residents call for the resignation of several McCurtain County officials after tapes with racist comments surfaced in Idabel, Okla., on Monday.Meanwhile, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into the matter at Stitt’s request, agency spokesman Gerald Davidson said Wednesday., R-Pollard, who lives in McCurtain County, said in a statement that after listening to the recordings, he had urged the commissioner and Clardy"to resign immediately.
When the talk turned to who might run for sheriff against Clardy, Jennings appeared to recall how a former sheriff “would take a damned Black guy and whoop their ass and throw them in the cell.” Jennings, 59, could not be reached immediately for comment. He appears to have shut down his cellphone and did not respond to emails.Clardy and the two other sheriff’s department workers, investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix, have also not responded to repeated requests for interviews since the McCurtain County Gazette-News story about the secret tape recording broke over the weekend.
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