Arkansas sheriff resigns after racist rant surfaces
Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright resigned Friday after audio surfaced that allegedly exposed him using the N-word nine times.
In the five-minute clip, a man berates a woman for speaking with a Black person at a grocery store, saying “Why you got to holler at f------ [N-word] when I’m around,” according to KATV.
Wright relinquished his post at a Quorum Court session called to address the racist rant, the news station reported.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge called his resignation “appropriate” in a tweet.
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-arkansas-sheriff-resigns-racist-rant-20200830-bwgvltjzgrc2rjxh6hol76gz74-story.html
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