A disturbing accusation is circulating regarding a conversation between McCurtain County's Sheriff Kevin Clardy and two other individuals -one investigator and a district commissioner- which had taken place after the county of Board of Commissioners meeting on March 6, 2023. There is a full recording of this conversation which the FBI and Oklahoma's Attorney General have both obtained. This recording took place without the three parties within the conversation having known.
Within this conversation the three individuals- Kevin Clardy (Sheriff of McCurtain County), Alicia Manning (the investigator), and Mark Jennings (District 2 Commissioner)- discussed topics like assaulting local judges, as well as murdering a local reporter and disposing of his body. Chris Willingham is a reporter for the local Gazette, and this is the reporter that Clardy, Manning, and Jennings were discussing. Willingham is suing the Sheriff's department in McCurtain County for defamation. It is disgusting that the Sheriff is in a position where he can make public death threats on Willingham and still not face any charges for doing so. In America, violent offenders are provided a gun and a badge. Officers like Clardy display an incessant lack of accountability and apathy towards the very people they are supposed to protect and serve.
Clardy, Manning, and Jennings also fantasize about a time in America where a Black individual could be legally lynched. At one point, Jennings discusses how Black Americans now have more rights than their white counterparts. But anyone who has seen an interaction with a police officer and a Black American versus a white American, is aware of the systemic challenges that plague Black Americans livelihoods.
The absolute worst people throughout American society are always the ones who are "serving" our communities, and it is displayed throughout every interaction the police have with the citizenry. There has to be accountability within police subculture.
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