Bobby Barrick’s widow Barbara sues Oklahoma sheriff Kevin Clardy who discussed killing reporters
Last March, outside the rural area of McCurtain County, Bobby Barrick’s death drew scant attention. The 45-year-old had died in a hospital days after deputies shocked him with a stun gun.
Over the weekend, the McCurtain Gazette-News published recordings revealing County Commissioner Mark Jennings, Sheriff Kevin Clardy and deputies seeming to discuss killing reporters with the paper and hanging Black people. The recorded comments from March 6 were captured after the paper’s publisher, Bruce Willingham, says he left a recorder inside the room after a county commissioner’s meeting because he suspected the group was continuing county business after the meeting ended, in violation of the state’s Open Meeting Act. They included discussion of “two or three hit men.”
Barrett was a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and his wife alleged in her lawsuit that the sheriff’s staff have “stated their resentment for members of the Native American community in a racial manner.” The Gazette-News, a small newspaper with limited online presence, sued the sheriff’s office last month, seeking body camera footage and other records of the arrest. On Thursday, the newspaper released the full recording of the meeting where officials threaten its reporters.
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