McCurtain County is in far southeast Oklahoma, in the forested foothills of the Ouachita mountains, bordering Arkansas and Texas. Willingham said he believed the officials were upset by “stories we’ve run that cast the sheriff’s office in an unfavorable light,” including coverage of Bobby Barrick’s death. They included discussion of “two or three hit men.” 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.
“I’d love for everybody to hear both sides of the story.” “Unfortunately, all of our attorneys are telling us we are supposed to stay quiet,” Undersheriff Mike Manning told The Associated Press Thursday, declining further comment. The officials have not publicly addressed the content of the recordings, which prompted calls for their resignations, including from Gov.
She praised the “persistent and brave” efforts of local newspaper reporters to find out more about her husband’s arrest and death.Ī look at the mom and 5 teenagers killed in rural Oklahoma “It’s been a hard year not knowing what happened to my husband,” Barbara Barrick said during a Thursday news conference in front of the sheriff’s office. The 45-year-old had died in a hospital days after deputies shocked him with a stun gun.īut the wrongful death lawsuit that Barbara Barrick filed in federal court Thursday comes as national attention is drawn on the county, more than 230 miles (370 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, by a recording of local officials discussing killing journalists and lynching Black people. Last March, outside the rural area of McCurtain County, Bobby Barrick’s death drew scant attention.
(AP) - The widow of an Oklahoma man who died following a 2022 arrest filed a lawsuit Thursday against the rural sheriff who a newspaper says it caught on tape talking about killing journalists who were reporting on her husband’s death.
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