Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker said on three separate occasions that he worked in law enforcement, but according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution that is not true.
While speaking at a suicide prevention event for the U.S Army in 2013, Walker described a 2001 incident in which he took his gun and chased a man who was late delivering a car.
“I worked in law enforcement, so I had a gun. I put this gun in my holster and I said, ‘I’m going to kill this dude,'” Walker said.
In 2017, Walker said he “work with the Cobb County Police Department, and I’ve been in criminal justice all my life.” Then in 2019 he told soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord that he “spent time at Quantico” and that he was an FBI agent.
Walker’s campaign said he was an honorary deputy in Cobb County. However, Cobb County Police Department said they do not have any records of the department’s involvement with Walker. The sheriff’s office could not immediately tell AJC if Walker was an honorary deputy or not.
J. Tom Morgan, the former district attorney for Dekalb County told the outlet that even if Walker was an honorary deputy he still has no law enforcement authority. This confusion was part of the reason why many sheriff offices in Georgia stopped handing out such honors because they became concerned that honorees would start impersonating police officers, which is a felony.
Walker’s campaign provided AJC with Associated Press stories from 1989, in which Walker said he spent a week at Quantico in Virginia, to support the candidate’s claim that he was an FBI agent.
The problem is that 20 weeks of training at Quantico is required to become a special agent, not one week. Also to become an FBI agent Walker would need at least a bachelor’s degree which he does not have.
