Published October 18, 2022 1:40pm EDT
Protester allegedly attacks Herschel Walker with racial slur, crashes press conference on Warnock evictions
Walker's press conference sought to highlight the evictions reportedly being carried out by Sen. Raphael Warnock's church at the Columbia MLK Towers in Atlanta
By Brandon Gillespie , Aubrie Spady | Fox News
ATLANTA – FIRST ON FOX: A small group of protesters disrupted a press conference being held by Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Tuesday, with one allegedly referring to him as a "house n-----."
A number of witnesses at the event said they heard the racial slur, including a media photographer, a number of Walker campaign staff members and multiple bystanders.
"This is all a stunt. He's nothing but a house n-----," the protester, who identified himself as Maceo Fletcher, yelled at Walker following the press conference according to a photographer covering the event for Zuma Press who wished to remain anonymous.
Multiple Walker campaign staffers confronted Fletcher as he was speaking with reporters on camera following the incident, asking him to repeat the slur he called the candidate.
Fletcher ignored them, as did many media members speaking with Fletcher, including CNN and CBS. Neither outlet asked about the slur despite the multiple witnesses who said they heard Fletcher.
One Walker campaign staffer told Fox News Digital that he heard Fletcher say, "He's a joke. He tap dances, and he's a house n------."
Fox pressed Fletcher on what name he allegedly called Walker, but he repeatedly refused to respond to the questions.
The press conference was being held outside the Columbia Towers apartment building in Atlanta, which is mostly owned by the church led by pastor and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Walker's opponent.
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