Herschel Walker claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasn't. [View all]
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Herschel Walker said he was an FBI agent in 2019 (he wasn't) and said he worked with the Cobb County Police Department (the campaign said he was an honorary deputy, but the CCPD couldn't immediately say if he was or not)
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The Jolt: Herschel Walker claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasnt.
U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself?
4:28 AM · Jun 13, 2022
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-herschel-walker-claimed-to-be-in-law-enforcement-when-he-wasnt/R3JJJGEAEBCMFIXMVOFHYI4HJY/
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U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself?
In at least three speeches delivered before he entered politics, Walker claimed he was, the AJCs Shannon McCaffrey reports.
I worked in law enforcement, so I had a gun. I put this gun in my holster and I said, Im gonna kill this dude, Walker said at a 2013 suicide prevention event for the U.S. Army. (Walker was describing a 2001 incident when he took his gun to pursue a man who was late delivering a car. That incident, Walker said, led him to seek mental health treatment.)
In a 2017 speech, Walker got more specific. I work with the Cobb County Police Department, and Ive been in criminal justice all my life, he said.
Later, in 2019, he said he was an FBI agent. I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Yall didnt know I was an agent? he said at a speech to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
And he also once told Irving, Tex. police he was a certified peace officer, according to a 2000 police report involving a conflict with an intoxicated man.
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