Gov. Kevin Stitt called for four McCurtain County officials to step down after the group’s racist ranting was went public.
after he and three other county officials were recorded fantasizing about lynching Black people and hiring hitmen to murder local reporters.
The four officials — Jennings, Sheriff Kevin Clardy, Sheriff’s Captain Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix — were recorded discussingMcCurtain Gazette-News“Yeah, I ain’t worried about what he’s gonna do to me,” Manning can reportedlysaying on the tape. “I’m worried about what I might do to him. My papaw would have whipped his ass, would have wiped him and used him for toilet paper […] if my daddy hadn’t been run over by a vehicle, he would have been down there.
“I know where two big, deep holes are here if you ever need them,” Jennings allegedly responded. Sheriff Clardy then reportedly volunteered his excavator to assist in the digging of holes. Jennings also complained about how lynchings are no longer legal. “Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with damned rope,” he allegedly said. “But you can’t do that anymore. They’ve got more rights than we’ve got.”
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