IDABEL, Okla. McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy will not face criminal charges and cannot be removed from office, the state s attorney general announced Friday.
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Acknowledging that the outcome may be frustrating, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said "there is no provision of law in Oklahoma to throw elected officials out of office merely for saying
McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy and other county officials allegedly were recorded discussing lynching Black people and killing local journalists after a local newspaper secretly recorded a commissioners meeting.