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GOP Oklahoma officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering reporters

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  1. Reeko

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    GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat up and hang Black people, as well as their desires to hire hitmen to kill newspaper reporters.

    The audio was published by print-only newspaper McCurtain Gazette-News, and it released transcript of a recording from a county commissioners meeting last month to the public that allegedly incriminates several public officials after disturbing comments were made. The full audio recording from Gazette-News reporter Bruce Willingham will be released by the newspaper at a later date.

    After hundreds came out in protest, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the resignationof McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy (R), District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings (R), Investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix for their comments in the meeting. District 3 Commissioner Robert Beck (R) is also cited in the audio.

    The transcript suggests that the group first started discussing a recent fire which killed a woman and her two dogs. The group joked about the woman’s body parts falling off her body, and that it is similar to eating barbecue.

    “So we get her in the body bag and Kyler goes, ‘You do know what we gotta do right?’ Faith goes, ‘No, what?’ He goes, ‘You gotta pre-heat the oven 350 degrees, leave her in there for 15 minutes,’” said Clardy.

    Later in the transcript, Jennings and Clardy had a racist exchange and went back and forth about society making it unacceptable to lynch Black people.

    “I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f—ing sheriff,” Jennings said.

    After Clardy said things aren’t like that anymore, Jennings continued.

    “I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”

    Jennings supposedly went on to say that he knows of two large pre-dug holes “if you ever need them,” referring to disposing the remains of Bruce Willingham and his son, Chris, also a Gazette-News reporter. Jennings also said that he knows of “two or three hit men, they’re very quiet guys.”

    Manning chimed in and claimed nobody would care if two of the Gazette-News’ reporters were harmed. “Yeah, but here’s the reality,” Manning allegedly said. “If a hair on his wife’s head, Chris Willingham’s head, or any of those people that really were behind that, if any hair on their head got touched by anybody, who would be the bad guy?”

    The trio was supposedly frustrated with the Gazette-News portraying the sheriff’s office unfavorably in their reporting.

    https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04...g-black-people-murdering-newspaper-reporters/
     
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    I wouldn't doubt these kinds of conversations happen between GOP officials all the time in podunk racist redneck towns in Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the other GOP run states around the country who used to lynch and black men because they could.
     
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    Right? I read this article yesterday and had literally no semblance of being shocked.
     
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    Sure, it's terrible and all. But, what has me scratching my head is how the eff does a print-only newspaper publish audio?
     
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    Is anyone surprised?

    Rocket River
     
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    That's crazy. Jail these mfers.
     
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    It is so sad that they can get a way with saying things like that but they don't want the history of acts like that to be taught in school .
     
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    Unfortunately, quite a few racists who hide in plain sight do not want their children to know how there ancestors treated folks of different skin colors, because their parents haven't really changed much and it would be a bad look if the kids realize their parents are just like the folks in the history books, so just hide the fact anything happened and the kids will never know
     
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    Some of the stories the last couple days... just pure evil.
     
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    It is so sad that they can get a way with saying things like that but they don't want the history of acts like that to be taught in school .
    That is so true so they figure erasing history is faster then teaching there kids to be better than they are.
     
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    Not surprising. I'd like to hear the tape.
     
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    I think people are surprised that it went public. Most of the time, people just ignore it.
     
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    Wait, Wait, Wait...........the POS sheriff says he`s worried about "who" recorded this and not the content..........Wow, just Wow, the thin blue line is the biggest joke, protect their own is there only motto...........don't worry that officials were caught talking about lynching and such, shoot the messenger instead.
     
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    in this case, shooting the messenger should be taken literally…they claim to have hitmen

    probably why the publisher of the local newspaper and his son were advised to leave town
     
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    Joey Senat, a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University, said under Oklahoma law, the recording would be legal if it were obtained in a place where the officials being recorded did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

    Bruce Willingham, the longtime publisher of the McCurtain Gazette-News, said the recording was made March 6 when he left a voice-activated recorder inside the room after a county commissioner’s meeting because he suspected the group was continuing to conduct county business after the meeting had ended in violation of the state’s Open Meeting Act.

    Willingham said he twice spoke with his attorneys to be sure he was doing nothing illegal. [...legal as long as the officials were talking about public business. "This was an ongoing public meeting", Willingham said...Christin Jones, a lawyer for the Willinghams and The Gazette-News, said in an email on Tuesday: “It is an accurate recording and does not violate the Oklahoma Security of Communications Act. The full audio is planned to be released on Thursday.” -- addendum from NYT article]

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...of-talk-about-killing-journalists-was-illegal

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/us/oklahoma-governor-stitt-officials-resignations.html
     
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    gosh, i wonder why so much of the GOP is trying to stop kids from learning about the history of racism in this country in school. real tough one to figure out
     
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    These guys are idiots. Discovery for this trail will be a certified b****. ... "Sheriff, is that your voice saying that you want to hang black people from trees?"
     
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