Oklahoma County Commissioner Resigns Over Leaked Racist And Threatening Remarks

A county commissioner in rural Oklahoma resigned Wednesday after he and other officials were accused of making threatening and racist remarks at a commissioners’ meeting last month, multiple news outlets reported, following uproar over a recording that allegedly caught county officials talking about lynching Black people and killing a local reporter. Earlier this week, the McCurtain Gazette, a print-only local newspaper, released a set of recordings from a County Commissioners’ meeting on March 6. On the recording, which has not been independently verified by other news outlets, officials appear to...