Body camera footage and a police report from the Atlanta Police Department shed light on a dispute between Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock and his wife from March.
Ouleye Ndoye called police and alleged that Warnock had run over her foot, according to a police report obtained by the Washington Examiner. At the time, Warnock and Ndoye were separated and were in the process of finalizing their divorce. In the body camera footage, Ndoye told officers that her grandfather, who lived in Senegal, had died, and she wanted Warnock to sign passport paperwork that would allow her to take her children out of the country.
Warnock said that he wouldn’t sign the papers letting Ndoye take the children out of the country until she signed the divorce papers, so that he could “have [his] parental rights secured,” according to video of the incident first reported on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“I spoke to Ms. Ouleye … who was limping when she came outside and stated that … she basically wanted him to sign a document so that their kids could gain access to a passport in which Mr. Raphael did not want to sign,” an officer who responded to the incident wrote in the report.
Warnock, who is in the middle of a key runoff election in Georgia that could determine which party takes control of the Senate in the first years of the Biden administration, was trying to take the children to school before he got on a flight to Washington, D.C. Warnock said that Ndoye “would not close the door for him to leave the location.” He said that he got out of the vehicle and tried to convince Ndoye to let him leave and she refused.
“I don’t want to get into a shoving match with her. So I go back around, get back in the car, and I slowly start to move, like I’m gonna move forward. Then she claims I ran over her foot,” Warnock told the officer.
The two accounts of the incident diverge from there. Warnock said that he moved the car slowly while the door was still open to get Ndoye to move. He said that after he began moving forward, Ndoye started yelling that Warnock ran over her foot.
Warnock said he “didn’t think” he had run over her foot.
Ndoye, who was limping when police officers arrived, said that Warnock backed the car over her foot, not moving forward as Warnock had said. The police report stated that Ndoye “was reluctant to show … her foot” to check for signs of injury.
Ndoye said that she had “seen him do a lot of bad stuff in the last few months” and that she’d “had enough of him thinking he can do whatever he wants because of who he is and treat me any kind of way.”
“This man’s running for United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation,” she told the officer. “I’ve been very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation.”
Ndoye later added: “I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. So that is what is going on here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.”
“I did not see any signs that Ms. Ouleye[‘s] foot was ran over,” the officer wrote in the report. In the bodycam footage, an officer said that he saw no tire patterns or other marks on Ndoye’s shoes that would have indicated she had been run over.
“We can’t confirm the allegations that she’s making,” another officer said.
After speaking with the officer who examined her foot, Ndoye requested a supervisor and medical attention. Medical responders checked that Ndoye “was able to wiggle her toes as directed by [medical responders]” and were “not able to locate any swelling, redness, or bruising or broken bones on Ms. Ouleye’s left foot.”
Ndoye did not seek further medical attention, and no charges were brought.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Warnock campaign for further comment.
