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Richard Luscombe

BIZARRE: Oklahoma officials recorded making racist and threatening remarks - What They Never Told You

People from Idabel, Oklahoma, call for the resignation of several McCurtain county officials at a meeting on Monday, in a photo provided by the Southwest Ledger.
People from Idabel, Oklahoma, call for the resignation of several McCurtain county officials at a meeting on Monday, in a photo provided by the Southwest Ledger. Photograph: Christopher Bryan/AP

A sheriff and several officials of a rural Oklahoma county are under pressure to resign after a local newspaper recorded their racist and expletive-laden conversation about their desire to murder journalists and lynch Black citizens.

Dozens of residents of McCurtain county protested at the sheriff’s office in Idabel on Monday, echoing calls from the Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, and the city’s mayor, Craig Young, for the officials to step down.

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