An Oklahoma Newspaper Caught County Officials Discussing Killing Reporters And Lynching Black People

A small community in Southeast Oklahoma has been rocked by scandal this week, after secret recordings of three local officials revealed that they’d made violent threats against newspaper reporters and joked about killing Black people.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1455450
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Going out on a limb here and guessing said sheriff also happens to be one of them high-falutin’ constitutional sheriffs.

Regardless, I’m not planning on visiting Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Texas, or any of those other shit-hole states any time soon.

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An Oklahoma Newspaper Caught County Officials Discussing Killing Reporters And Lynching Black People

Merely “discussing killing reporters” is one thing, but actually “lynching black people” is horrific! I hope that the county officials have been arrested already.

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In the post he claimed to be conducting an investigation into “multiple, significant violation[s] of the Oklahoma Security of Communications Act,” stating that it’s illegal to record conversation that you’re not a part of without at least one participants’ consent.

Just like with TMFWWNBN. It’s not the crime, it’s the disloyal damn S.O.B.s who exposed the crime, that need to be investigated and locked up.

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I’ll bet that sheriff’s dog had an insatiable appetite for paper too.

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This is a fight Republicans can get behind. Supporting traditional American values like lynching black people and killing reporters is their thing.

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America is just too damn big when these enclaves can go on. We need more immigrants.

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Exactly, we need to dilute the deplorables by adding good and decent human beings to our population.

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the local county sheriff is arguing on Facebook that the recording was made illegally and tampered with.

Keep talking, dude. Absolutely no need for you to get a lawyer. You can handle this on your own.

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It’s weird what associations a brain can make upon reading a headline …

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He’s channeling his inner Barney Fife—and I thought only Gym Jordan was doing that.

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An Oklahoma Newspaper Caught County Officials Discussing Killing Reporters And The Lynching Of Black People

Fixed it.

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Good.

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Time to look into arrests & injuries in that county …

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Lol

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“…They got more rights than we got.”

What the fuck is wrong with these racist shitheads?

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A manifestation of the Trump / GQP / Republican victim culture.

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Sick people! I do not suppose there is a cure.

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They’re racist shitheads.

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