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Raphael Warnock Blames Brother’s Drug Conviction on Systemic Racism. Court Records Tell a Different Story.
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 06/13/2022 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 06/14/2022 8:34:10 AM PDT by DFG

When he talks about racism in the U.S. justice system, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) often cites the case of his older brother—a "first-time," "nonviolent" drug offender who was sentenced to life in prison due to a "pandemic of racism," according to the senator.

Warnock has compared his half-brother, whose full name is Keith Coleman, to black victims of police shootings, attributed his imprisonment to the "stigma of color and criminality," and praised his early release in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic as a day of "hope" for the justice system.

But hundreds of pages of court records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon tell a more complicated story: Coleman was a cop with the Savannah Police Department when he was convicted of facilitating a cross-country cocaine trafficking operation in 1996 and 1997—and once warned that he could send a drug dealer’s "black ass" to prison if the dealer didn’t pay Coleman more money.

The details conflict with Warnock’s accounts, which omit that Coleman was a police officer and portray him as a victim of law enforcement corruption rather than a participant in it.

"[My brother] was a first-time offender, convicted of a nonviolent drug-related offense, in which no one got hurt, no one died, no one even got high because the federal government basically created the sting operation," said Warnock in a June 2020 speech to the American Jewish Archives.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brooks; coleman; georgia; warnock

1 posted on 06/14/2022 8:34:10 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Democrats Lie!

That’s just what they do!

No fidelity to honor, truth, or God.


2 posted on 06/14/2022 8:35:58 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: DFG

Who wants to tell him about the current Vice President’s record in California?


3 posted on 06/14/2022 8:36:06 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DFG

The clown needs to go home to Afrika where they have a non-systematic version of racism. What a retard. Let him take his “brother” with him. Afrika could use some drug addicts to keep their cops busy.


4 posted on 06/14/2022 8:42:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: DFG

HOW DID IT TAKE THIS LONG TO FIND OUT THAT WARNOCK COMES FROM A FAMILY OF A DIRTY COP AND COCAINE SMUGGLER?!!!!


5 posted on 06/14/2022 8:45:00 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DFG

And he says this knowing that the people that support him, black folks who vote simply on skin color and white liberals who believe every sob story they hear, won’t bother to check veracity of his account nor will they care that he lied. All they hear is that a black man was oppressed by the white man and that’s all that matters.

On the other hand, he says all of this knowing that everything about his brothers case is public record, easily investigated and challenged and he still doesn’t care that he’ll be found out to be lying.


6 posted on 06/14/2022 8:53:00 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: DFG

(convicted of facilitating a cross-country cocaine trafficking operation in 1996 and 1997)

Oh.....gee.....

IANAL but that seems bad or something.


7 posted on 06/14/2022 8:54:00 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: qaz123

“On the other hand, he says all of this knowing that everything about his brothers case is public record, easily investigated and challenged”

For unknown reasons no Republican in Georgia bothered to find out/ challenge Warnock about this total misinformation. So we lost the election, lost the runoff, lost the Senate and are now losing the country.


8 posted on 06/14/2022 9:01:00 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: DFG

It was racism that caused him to drive over his ex wife’s foot.


9 posted on 06/14/2022 9:16:28 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: DFG

Warnock thinks that if you are black you go to jail for spitting on the sidewalk. Your brother was a dirty cop!! Duty cops SHOULD go to jail...


10 posted on 06/14/2022 9:17:05 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: DFG

THIS! is what our Baptist Church Pimp Preacher is concerned about. He doesn’t give a flying rip about anybody outside of the 5 county metro Atlanta area or the other Democrat cities/counties in Georgia. He’s worthless. Herschel gonna kick his ass in November.


11 posted on 06/14/2022 9:19:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: dangus

coulda figured that out when you found out he was the Pastor at the FBC Ebenezer.......

Look at how he dresses...he’s nothing but a pimp, IMO.


12 posted on 06/14/2022 9:21:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Freee-dame

For unknown reasons no Republican in Georgia bothered to find out/ challenge Warnock about this total misinformation. So we lost the election, lost the runoff, lost the Senate and are now losing the country.

They knew. They didn’t care. I don’t care what anyone has to say about Perdue or Loeffler. The goings-on of our government, Congress, and all the other nasty stuff exposed by President Trump were widely known. It should have been a massacre or Perdue and Loeffler over Warnock and Ossoff.

But there was a lot more than this going on in Georgia with regards to the elections. Warnock came out of nowhere and won. He won because the same voter practices in November were allowed in Jan and because the run-off was delayed an extra month for a reason no one has ever bothered to aks. Hmmmmm....

But, you’re 100% correct on the losing part.


13 posted on 06/14/2022 9:28:56 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: DFG

THE EVOLUTION OF BLAME

Eve: the devil made me do it
Adam: my significant other made me do it
Dan White: Twinkies made me do it
O.J. Simpson: if I did it, love made me do it
Homophobes: gay panic made me do it
John Hinkley: temporary insanity made me to it
School mass-murderer: bullying made me do it
Millie Vanilli: the rain made me do it
Jamie Fox: the al-al-alal-al-alcohol made me do it
Raphael Warnock (on behalf of his brother): white people made me do it


14 posted on 06/14/2022 9:30:36 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: DFG

Of course it was racism. I’m sure the guy was as pure as driven snow.


15 posted on 06/14/2022 10:01:46 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DFG
Coleman was a cop with the Savannah Police Department when he was convicted of facilitating a cross-country cocaine trafficking operation in 1996 and 1997—and once warned that he could send a drug dealer’s "black ass" to prison if the dealer didn’t pay Coleman more money.

I don't understand why this man is no director of the FBI. Sure as hell a lot more straightforwardly honest than a Bush League Ivy League graduate.

16 posted on 06/14/2022 10:12:42 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: bk1000

Good one!


17 posted on 06/14/2022 12:00:10 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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