Earlier this week, a newspaper released portions of disturbing and racist audio recordings of comments allegedly made by an Oklahoma sheriff and three county officials. NBC’s Steven Romo has more on how the newspaper recently publicly released the entire recording that includes even more threats.
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Shut em down
Come on community, check these crooks! Make them pay!
As an okie who has seen 100s of the law go to jail for corruption and murder. OKLAHOMA IS FOR CROOKS AND DRUGGYS.
What racist and violent thugs.
Well, the people elected a bunch of hicks. Maybe they pay more attention next time? Nah. Not likely.
Durrdle, durrdle, durdel, durdel, black durdel durdel, more rights durdel, than us, durdel durdel. These guys sound like they got their education from the back of a cereal box. Dumb country bumpkins.
To protect and serve-not conspire to murder or hire hitmen! JHC!
Conversations like that happen every godamn day at workplaces and offices in the US. I highly doubt they were serious.
The good book stated “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak”. They are very serious!
@Reds Wood good book?
yea not gonna save the racist
Glad there’s subtitles, these people talk like boomhauer from king of the hill.
“They have more rights than us”
Not being allowed to lynch people is more rights than them?
It’s like with the pentagon/Ukraine leaker. Let’s be consistent. We should know the truth, regardless of how or who it comes through.
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire,
Oklahoma, if you are surprised, you live in the bubble everyone mentions
so many places in america are probably still like this sadly
Blake Shelton said it all – “This is God’s Country!”
Hahaha okies are crazy that way
F that sheriff department for lying and saying the recordings were altered, and f them for trying to defend the actions by saying the recording was illegal. Doesn’t make a difference. No benefits and clean house.
Republican Jesus worshippers.
Good job local newspaper for standing up for what is right when there is so much wrong s*** in the world today!!!!!!!!
You can use those holes you referred to bury your own law enforcement careers!
As a white person, I am embarrassed. This is exactly what black people imagine we are like behind closed doors
Great job to the local Newspaper company, in Las Vegas there was a journalist killed because of a story he dug up.
Guess the governor is giving them a chance to hang black people and to fill the two holes with the old guy and his son before anything is done about this, wow
“illegally obtained”. You’re in a public building and you were at a public hearing, were you not? You had no right to privacy. He didn’t leave it in your homes.
Lots of white,black etc.people talk this way.
Gotta love the high standards these Red states preach about. Jokes.
So sad but this is the real u s.a
Welcome to mainstream GOP philosophy. They have no fear discussing such things in the presence of fellow cult members.
I’m all for punishing people in powerful positions, giggity, but can we not fund their fxxking retirement plans as well?! It’s clear they have no life skills and I’m not for letting them walk away with the impression they can keep something out of the loss.
The Justice Department has to get involved in this. No telling who they have cheated or put in jail due to hate.
Secretly recording someone is illegal fyi
The Devil roams the Earth 😒
Old Jolly Farm, from Mississippi to Oklahoma.
You are in a position to protect and serve the COMMUNITY which means EVERYONE! Get these disgusting slogs out of here!!!
They need to be immediately fired and criminally charged for their conspiracy to commit organized crime against a business entity ( the newspaper and its owner and management), the government official ( the Black mayor ), the Black citizens of Oklahoma and Louisiana, and whatever other disclosed and nondisclosed crimes that they explicitly self-disclosed and alluded to that must be investigated. This should be a local, state, and federal investigation. Maybe RICO. @DOJ @FBI Those pre-dug holes and the exacator statement is especially concerning. There may be some missing Black bodies buried in those holes or on some property associated with these individuals and the alledged hitmen that confessed to have connections with in Louisiana. The world is watching the outcome of this revealation. Don’t fumble the case.
You said it…. Your comment needs to be SENT TO the State, Federal and Local Authorities, the DOJ and the FBI… Send it girl!! Please do!! You gave me chills , I know your words to be true… really TRUE ….. Send your thoughts!!!!!
Exposed
Jeeze this is awful.
It’s sad that most small town police and officials are people with small brains that desire power. Ignorance and insensitive individuals have no place in government, yet people continue to put those very people in power ..from the top ( president ) down
The American people deserve better candidates and representation in all fazes of government.
Good ole boys, talkin crap, harmless. (The rump-rangers delivering fake news, “are the scary ones”. Scary fairies. I ll take those Americans any day.)
fire them and jail them for conspiring. this is domestic terrorism
Republicans, eh.
Conspiracy to commit murder. It’s a crime don’t be so stupid
Pretty sure every single lynching in history started off with playful banter like this.
But it’s alright when Black people talk about erasing Whites from the Earth. Double standard
This is the very definition of White supremacy and White domestic terrorism. It also proves that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is correct and must be taught. Keeping it classy, trailer parks!
Complaining about how people got the tape isn’t going to help their case
Awesome reporting.
Im sorry but they give southern accents a bad name. Shameful behavior by adults.
This is psychopathic blatant premeditation to multiple murders and violent destructive crimes. FIRE ALL OF THEM NOW! Psychologically, morally and ethically UNFIT to protect and serve. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
This is worst then it sounds , i believe “mafia” politics is more poplar then what people might be thinking …Busted
I just want to point out another perspective, 98.9% of the people in these comments, find what they have done and said, absolutely sickening… So I feel like we’re regularly folks, so maybe some of the towns / city’s in the USA have good people in the Government as opposed these “Good Ol boys” .. now I know it’s not as likely, cause historically the law and it’s entities have been biased… but I am pleased how many of US, citizens are applaud by this BS…. Just a 💭 thought…
Let me guess: Republican?
They are not an aberration, a lot of lowlifes have chosen to join police gangs.
Republicans religious fascism continues 😢
Fire the racists bithches
Welcome to America.
They are barbaric
How pathetic am I for thinking, “Well, at least they said ‘black guy’ and didn’t use the N-word. That’s progress, right?” 🙄🙄🙄
And Racism is NOT real in America? hanging, pre-dug holes, dump in mud creek drive through office. These 4 are thugs, criminals. Evil ppl!🤬. This is the Republikkkan!
Bravo to the local newspaper to expose racism in the sheriff office! 💙 these criminals salaries are paid by tax payers. They should ask to return the $ if they hate their residents so much!
Oh and I’m sure that no other person in media has ever made a racial slur. Noooo way at aaaaallllll. So BAD! How can they even live after saying words?!
Hillbillies
“Illegal recording” is a pathetic response. From what I could find from AP sources the recording was made in a PUBLIC town hall meeting room, the reporter left the device in the public meeting place to investigate if community business was being conducted in violation of the “open meetings” law. Expectation of privacy is already highly questionable, but even if it were violated, two wrongs can and often do exist simultaneously. They don’t cancel out each other, that isn’t how real life works.
Intent also matters, the intent was to investigate wrongdoing. If the intent was to commit a crime the felonious nature would hold, but seeing as how the newspaper sought legal advice prior to leaving the recording device, good luck with showing ill intent.
They got caught showing the truth of themselves without provocation or leading questions to their very character, the truths reveled matter more than the circumstances and they are not holding themselves accountable. Not my district, not my representatives so it is a question for their constituents if the threats, including lynching, is acceptable.
I don’t know OK law, but most places a threat of violence to a third party is also a crime, for what it’s worth.
ELECTED THUGS…
Just put cameras with audio on everyone’s office
Fire these Bigots
How about I’m the most outstanding recruit in the history of Oklahoma and I’m black… How about no white boys in the state of Oklahoma has ever scored higher than me in the history of the US ARMY…. How about I’m more than DOUBLE better than anyone in that sheriff’s or official’s family… I, Roderic J. McCord, 120th Engineering Battalion HSC, is better than ANY WHITE BOY that EVER joined the military in Oklahoma!! Only 8% of the population is black in Oklahoma… I came from an orphanage called Tulsa Boys Home and outscored every white boy as an orphan teenager… I’m better than your daddy white boy… And better than your children…
They’ll be working again in 6months when this blows over
They should have been fired.
If anyone is looking for a official position in Oklahoma to qualify you just need to be bilingual Spanish preferably no one is the above the law no one.
Corrupt Officials
Imagine what they have done over the years.
OMG Idabel has a Coloured Mayour.
What Has happen? Good progress
Conspiracy to commit murder wheres the attorney general
How are they not arrested?
OK, but Clerdy should be fired for being unintelligible.
Imagine the lives they have destroyed. Sounds like terrorist threats
simple work chatter, each trying to impress one another…nothing to see here
Audio and video means nothing anymore with AI
I don’t know why this is surprising there are millions of people who feel like this and for what because our skin is Black.
Sounded like they admitted to past Murders to me.
MURDERERS
Why is anyone shocked or surprised? All white law enforcement civil servants are racist trigger happy power hungry COWARDS
They were fired
This is what happens when the uneducated people elect a corrupt fascist extremists.
Yep, sickening and racist. Suprised?
Award-winning journalism.
Can no longer lynch black people has them upset, unbelievable!
Why aren’t they arrested??
I think the public needs to gather up those racists and find out how THEY do, at the end of a rope. Removed? Woodchippers were invented for these white trash. I hope they read this.
This is nothing new. Not in my lifetime but maybe in my Great Great Grandchildrens lifetime will racism in America start to disappear.
A year later, ex-sheriff will say I swear I’m a changed man! I’m not racist anymore. Once a racist, always a racist.
Amerikkka
No one’s safe in that town …
What swine they have for Officials… Yuck!
*Seriously, who still wears a cowboy hat?*