Georgia: Warnock (D) has history of blaming ex-policeman brother’s drug conviction on racism, report

JTN:

Georgia Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock has not always presented a contextually honest story when speaking about his half brother, a “first-time,” “nonviolent” drug offender, who was sentenced to life in prison because of “racism,” according to an investigation by the Washington Free Beacon.

The half-brother Keith Coleman was sentenced to life in prison following a conviction on charges related to facilitating a nationwide cocaine trafficking operation in 1996 and 1997.

He was at the time a Savannah Police Department officer who willingly became engaged in a cocaine-trafficking operation that turned out to be part of an FBI sting to catch dirty cops.

In speaking about his brother, Warnock, running for a reelection in November, often portrays Coleman as a victim of a system that treats black men unfairly, according the the Beacon.

The news outlet says Warnock, during a 2020 speech at the American Jewish Archives, said his sibling 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.”

Following the launch of the FBI’s “Operation Broken Oath,” which was designed to investigation whistleblower tips about corruption in the Savannah Police Department, Coleman became a part, and then the ringleader, of an illegal plot to shuttle cocaine through his state and throughout the country. more