Fulton County Sheriff Theodore “Ted” Jackson says Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, who is president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, is no racist.
As an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Mobile, Alabama, office during the late 1980s, Jackson often worked closely with Sessions, who was then the U.S. attorney in Mobile. The Fulton County sheriff, an African-American, said he was moved by the FBI from New Jersey to Mobile in 1988 because the bureau sought diversity in conducting its investigations.
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