This week’s entry of elected leaders blatantly ignoring constituents features Mayor GT Bynum putting reality television ahead of what local leaders say would be protecting Tulsa’s vulnerable populations. Local community leaders, including elected officials, have recently pressured Bynum to end Tulsa’s contract with A&E’s Live PD. The contract was dropped around 2017 but renewed last […]
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Chicken-Fried News: No class
Less than two years after being acquitted for manslaughter, former Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby, who shot and killed unarmed Terence Crutcher in September 2016, is scheduled to teach a National Rifle Association pistol-shooting course at Tulsa’s United States Shooting Academy. While we could accuse NRA of having impure motivations here, we will just offer […]
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Chicken Fried News: Caffeine slinger
A man we assume was already sufficiently over-caffeinated stole an 18-wheeler Pepsi truck late last month. The soda truck thief, Steven Allen Hart, jumped into the truck and drove off with it while workers were unloading product from the back. The truck’s actual driver had to jump out as Hart made his getaway. The man’s […]