>>The source recounted personal conversations with drug task force members who reported writing as many as 10 such citations per day. Numerous Guymon police officers had expressed concern that drug task force members making a salary of $50,000 per year could nevertheless afford to buy cars for their children and live in homes well beyond their means, the source said.<<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/21/anonymous-source-sheds-light-on-panhandle-police-impunity/

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Anonymous Source Sheds Light on Panhandle Police Impunity

A tip from a former Guymon police officer offers hard evidence of police abuses characteristic of rural Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Watch
Shock and anger after fired worker killed by police at Oklahoma pork plant

Chiewelthap Mariar, 26-year-old Sudanese refugee, shot dead after police called to escort him from Seaboard Foods factory in Guymon

The Guardian
She Needed Lifesaving Medication, but the Only Hospital in Town Did Not Have It

Mabel Garcia went to the only emergency room in Texas County, Oklahoma, which didn’t have a drug for heart attacks and strokes. She was airlifted to a larger hospital that gave her the drug she needed, but it was too late. She suffered brain damage.

Either #Walmart has acheived #Starbucks level location saturation in #Oklahoma, or the smaller of these two Walmart Supercenters on the same intersection in #Guymon is now something else.

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