Last night, AG Gentner dropped a divebomb on the Oklahoma media when he announced State Rep. Ty Burns – a military veteran, former sheriff’s deputy, and the prototype for every controlling, abusive-father movie villain ever created – had pled guilty to three misdemeanor domestic abuse and assault charges stemming from “family situations” involving his wife, their kids, and other relatives.
He will receive no jail time and instead be sent to something they really call "batterer counseling."
While the TV news just kind of ran with Gentner’s announcement for the 10 p.m. late edition, The Wokelahoman and Yawn Doc both took deep dives into the accusations that led to the guilty plea.
They’re pretty disturbing.
In one dispute, Burns nearly poked his wife’s eye out because she wanted to grab some drinks with friends. In another, he tracked down his grandmother-in-law and teenage daughter while they fled one of his volatile outbursts, and ran their van off the road with his pickup.
According to his teenage daughter, she thought they were going to die: