PolitiFact - The misleading claim that Raphael Warnock ‘called police thugs, then cut their funding’

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PolitiFact - The misleading claim that Raphael Warnock ‘called police thugs, then cut their funding’
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U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock did not call all police officers “thugs.” He used the word in a sermon while referring to two specific events in Selma, Alabama, and Ferguson, Missouri. Warnock also hasn’t cut police funding.

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We found that Walker’s assertion that Warnock"called police thugs, then cut their funding" is misleading. Walker’s campaign did not respond to inquiries for this article.This appears to refer to remarks Warnock made in a sermon on, when he was pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

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