(Photo: Lee County Sheriff's Department)
A Mississippi sheriff made a racist remark in a text message, a public records request by a local newspaper reveals, and then, when questioned about the comment, said he was “aggravated” at the time.
The Daily Journal reported Tuesday that Sheriff Jim Johnson in August 2017 “described a local white legislator as ‘worse than a black person’ in a text to a local official.”
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