Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright has resigned after he was allegedly recorded using racist slurs against black people. The shocking five-minute audio recording quickly went viral after it began circulating on Facebook late Wednesday night.
In the recording, a man uses the n-word nine times after becoming upset that a woman he was with spoke to a black person inside a Piggly Wiggly grocery store.
He can be heard calling the woman a “n**** lover.” “I don’t understand why you’re so mad at me,” the woman said in response. “Why you got to holler a f*cking n****rs when I’m around,” he replied.
Wright’s resignation was announced Friday after a special Quorum Court meeting was held this morning to address the recording.