Citizen Report No. 1681857978 - 886034568

Kevin Clardy

McCurtain County Sheriff's Office

108 North Central Avenue

Idabel, Oklahoma 74745

https://mccurtain.o…

Date of Offense

April 15, 2023

Offense(s)

Misconduct

Supremacy

Supporting Document(s)

Audio mp4 - Released

Oklahoman Article

Statement

Sheriff Kevin Clardy CLEET # 0033868

The McCurtain County Gazette released attached audio of county officials discussing plans to kill one of their reporters and reminiscing on the days of lynching Black people.

Investigator Alicia Manning, Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix along with District 2 County Commissioner Mark Jennings, District 3 County Commissioner Robert Beck, and Commissioner Secretary, Heather Carter were caught via a audio recording obtained by one of the reporters while they met in a local public office.

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
#ReformIsNotARequest

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