Arkansas sheriff quits after racist rant goes viral

DEWITT, Ark. (AP) — The sheriff of an Arkansas Delta county has resigned under pressure after a recording of a man identified as him delivering a racist rant went viral. Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright resigned Friday at the request of the county’s governing board. The Pine Bluff Commercial reported a five-minute audio recording circulated on Facebook this week of a man uses a racial slur nine times after becoming upset that a woman he was with spoke to a black person in a grocer