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Oklahoma Standard: McCurtain County Officials Share Homicidal Fantasies and Racist Views over Hot Mic

11:29 AM EDT on April 17, 2023

Grab your “It’s Been Zero Minutes Since Oklahoma was a National Embarrassment” graphic. 

Over the weekend, a screenshot of this bombshell story in the McCurtain County Gazette – a paper that covers the remote southeastern Oklahoma outpost of McCurtain County – tore through the local interwebs. 

The report details a jovially racist, homicidal and inadvertently recorded discussion between McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings, and other county officials following an open meeting discussing county business.