By PATRICK WHITTLE, Related Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A lady who was sworn in Monday as a metropolis council member in Bangor, Maine, served time in jail for manslaughter.
The election of Angela Walker sparked outrage on conservative social media and concern from some Maine Republicans, corresponding to Bobby Charles, a Republican candidate for governor.
However Walker, who is just not a member of a political celebration, spoke brazenly throughout her marketing campaign about how she is a modified particular person and believes she will convey a novel perspective to metropolis authorities as somebody who has been by dependancy restoration and the prison justice system.
“Councilor Walker was among the many high three vote-getters and was sworn in Monday, Nov. 10, together with two others. The Council intends to look forward and proceed addressing essential points which can be affecting Bangor and different cities throughout the nation, such because the housing disaster, the unhoused inhabitants and the opioid epidemic,” metropolis spokesperson David Warren mentioned in an announcement.
Walker was sentenced to 10 years in jail after she and her brother, Benjamin Humphrey, pleaded responsible within the 2002 dying of Derek Rogers. The Canadian vacationer had allegedly known as Walker a derogatory time period for Native American girls earlier than a battle broke out. He was later discovered severely crushed and suffocated with sand.
Makes an attempt to succeed in household of Rogers weren’t profitable.
Now listed as a peer companies coordinator for Bangor Space Restoration Community, which supplies dependancy restoration companies within the Bangor space, Walker ran on points corresponding to enhancing social companies, helps for unhoused folks and public transportation within the metropolis, the Bangor Day by day Information reported. She didn’t return a name from The Related Press on Monday.
Her profile on the web site says she is “a girl in restoration, who enjoys supporting others of their restoration” with greater than a decade of expertise in psychological well being and substance use assist.
Susan Faloon, one other council member who was sworn in on Monday, mentioned she appears to be like ahead to serving with Walker.
“I believe it’s necessary that individuals bear in mind she served her time,” Faloon mentioned. “She has turned her life round, has turn out to be a productive member of society, and is giving again and serving to others.”
