The day after Thanksgiving, a story began circulating that was like catnip for the Blue Lives Matter crowd. A Kiefer Police Department officer stopped in uniform at the Starbucks in Glenpool to provide a holiday pick-me-up for dispatcher workers, but instead of misspelling his name, an employee wrote “Pig” on the order. Police chief Johnny […]
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Social policing
Social media has grown into one of the most efficient tools for law enforcement agencies to solve crimes. But bigoted and racist posts from officers’ personal accounts cause people to question how they can equally police all communities. Despite individual officers across the nation making headlines for negative social media posts, officials say overwhelming benefits […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Whiter whites
One of President Donald Trump’s most recent Twitter rants, which media outlets cannot help but call “racially charged” comments, targeted four congresswomen of color. Unfortunately, Trump’s racist battery seems to always be at full charge. Trump told “progressive Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Fan out
One year ago, Oklahoma City Thunder fans were floored by the news that general manager Sam Presti had won the Carmelo Anthony sweepstakes and negotiated a trade to get the star — and his bloated contract — out of the Big Apple and into the Big Biscuits and Gravy (our official state fruit). But the […]
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Fist fight
A logo of brass knuckles and a mission statement some believed romanticized the state’s land run history helped contribute to widespread social media suspicion the fledgling Defend OKC T-shirt and lifestyle brand represented — or at least was sympathetic to — white supremacist ideals. The brand has repeatedly refuted the association. “I’ve explicitly reiterated to […]
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Chicken-Fried News: You got ratio’ed!
On Twitter, there is a phenomenon called “the ratio,” and depending on the balance of that ratio, any given tweet can be mathematically judged as an overwhelming success or a crashing failure. For example, if rapper Meek Mill tweets that he is “taking over” BET on the weekend of the BET Awards and he gets […]
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COVER: Viral disease
In early March 2015, a YouTube video emerged featuring members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant on a charter bus ride to Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. The Lost Ogle jumped on the story and then local and national news outlets followed suit. Oklahoma’s “Obscure Local Social […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Stay stone-cold gold
Legendary Oklahoma author S.E. Hinton recently answered a fan’s Twitter question in quite a startling manner.
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Chicken-Fried News: Aerial mystery
Thunder players took to Twitter to ponder what could have caused such a dent in the nose of the aircraft they took to a recent game in Chicago.
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Chicken-fried News: Oops, there it is
Kevin Durant recently got into a little media trouble after making some harsh comments on Twitter about why he left OKC.