A local official resigned after he was recorded talking to other officials about harming journalists and hanging Black people. (via The ReidOut Blog)
as Jennings bemoans the job of modern-day sheriffs and speaks fondly of a time when, he says, officials could mete out harm against Black people.
A man identified by Gazette-News as Clardy, the sheriff, responds that “it’s not like that anymore." Jennings then appears to take things a step further: Evidently, local officials being recorded saying embarrassing or bigoted things is becoming a more common occurrence. on a man who died at a hospital after McCurtain County deputies shot him with a stun gun, according to the Gazette-News.told the Associated Press
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