Posted on 04/04/2025 10:27:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In his marathon 25-hour speech this week, it seems unlikely that a lachrymose Sen. Cory Booker gave even a passing thought to the mothers of Dashon Harvey, Terrence Aeriel, Natasha Aeriel, and Iofemi Hightower. If he had, he would not have dared ask America to “think about” the wife and child of an MS-13 gangster shipped off to El Salvador.
Booker knows who these mothers are. I am sure he met them. He was mayor of Newark, N.J. when their children were sexually assaulted and/or murdered in a Newark playground by a gang of illegal aliens. I know about these murders only because I grew up in Newark and follow its news.
Although the largest city in one of America’s most populous states, Newark makes the news only when the gatekeepers of New York’s newsrooms decide it should. And on the night of August 4, 2007, no one wanted to greenlight the story coming out of Newark.
On that steamy evening, Jose Carranza, 28 at the time, and five of his homies were drinking and smoking marijuana in a Newark schoolyard. There they spied four young black students, two of them female, talking and playing music, and judged them easy prey.
These were not members of a rival gang. Far from it. Dashon Harvey, 20, was entering his junior year at Delaware State University. Terrence Aeriel, 18, was to begin at Delaware State the following month. Natasha Aeriel, then 19, also attended Delaware State. Iofemi Hightower, 20, was holding down two jobs while she saved to attend college.
“Itz tym 2 go,” an anxious Terrance Aeriel texted his sister Natasha from his perch on top of a playground apparatus. He could see something the others could not.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Most dangerously, Jose Carranza had the potential to be the next Willie Horton for whichever candidate ended up owning the policies that had left him free to kill. At the time of the murders, Carranza was out on bail. He was awaiting trial in two separate cases, one the sexual assault of a five-year-old girl.
This would have been troubling enough had Carranza been a citizen or a legal resident, but he was neither. Newark authorities knew he was in the country illegally, but they chose not to notify immigration officials of either arrest. They never did. Newark gloried in its status as a sanctuary city. Still does.
“No one shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of the law,” said the deluded Booker with regard to the MS-13 gangsters shipped off to El Salvador.
Tell that to the moms, Spartacus.
good old cory. solidly in the 20% box on this 80/20 issue.
BTTT
I remember that story in the news. It was horrible.
I remember this case. Very sad and barely made the MSM
Spartacus has staked out a spot on the rodent hierarchy. He is the court jester who is charged with entertaining the troops just by being himself. We have never heard of Spartacus making an even vaguely profound or meaningful statement. He is just a clown nothing more
Cory Booker proof that his voters are as stupid as he is.
I appreciate this unsurprising, all to frequent story by the American Thinker.
but I can’t help wondering about an 18 yo Terrence Aeriel ‘perched atop a playground apparatus’.
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