According to KOKH, someone called the Garfield County Sheriff's Office on Saturday night to report that three men were standing around a fire dressed as KKK members. Cary Sharp, the husband of Lahoma Mayor Theresa Sharp, reportedly was one of them.
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"There is not criminal violations," Niles told KOKH. "There is no burn ban, so it's legal to have a fire."
"Please don't tell me racism is dead!" Alfred Baldwin III wrote in a Facebook post that includes a photo from the scene. "This just happened a few miles outside of Enid. A little town called Lahoma. And to make matters worse, one of them was the mayor of Lahoma's husband! The mayor's HUSBAND!"
"I'm disheartened, I'm sad and I'm hurt," she told KOKH. "I would like to apologize publicly to the community."
She told NBC News that she and her husband are not involved with the Klan, and she won't be stepping down from her position as mayor.
In a Facebook post, Niles acknowledged that the costumes were "in poor taste" and chalked the incident up to "poor decision-making on the part of several adult males."
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