County Commissioner Mark Jennings was caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was apparentlydiscussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office confirmed Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed it has launched an investigation into the matter at the request of the governor. In the recording, Jennings also appears to complain about not being able to hang Black people, saying: “They got more rights than we got.” The lawsuit, which was filed on the same day the recording was made, alleges that after the series was published, Manning told a third party during a teleconference that Chris Willingham exchanged marijuana for sexually explicit images of children from a man who had been arrested on child sex abuse image charges.
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