National Review to sue Cory Booker over Wazn Miller story

theGRIO REPORT - The National Review, the conservative publication, is suing Newark mayor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker over the veracity of a story he's told on the campaign trail...

TheGrio Staff

Sep 11, 2013

The National Review, the conservative publication, is suing Newark mayor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker over the veracity of a story he’s told on the campaign trail.

Booker has claimed that he held 19-year-old Wazn Miller in his arms as he died as a result of gun violence back in 2004.

Miller, who has lost both of his parents to AIDS, has become a symbol of Booker’s hands on approach to governing.

According to the Newark Star-Ledger:

“Booker said he cradled Wazn and applied pressure to the wound to his stomach to stop the bleeding. He also kept checking the young man’s pulse.

‘The first time, I felt a weak pulse. The second time, I felt really strange sensations. Then there was no pulse at all,’ Booker said.

Booker said he tried to talk to Wazn until the ambulance arrived.

‘I said, ‘Hold tight. Stay with me. You’re going to be okay,’ Booker recalled.”

However, editors of the National Review believe Booker may have manufactured the story and they are suing to obtain documentation to prove their theory.

“It should be easy to get more information about the Miller case. New Jersey is an open-records state. Yet for weeks now, we have been stonewalled and given the run-around by everyone we’ve asked for help in obtaining the relevant police records. We’ve asked nicely, we’ve asked firmly, we’ve asked in every way imaginable, but gotten nowhere. It is much easier to learn about the most sensitive aspects of top-secret national-security programs than it is to get Newark police records related to that day,” writes National Review editor Rich Lowry.

“Enough is enough. Yesterday we filed suit against the Newark Police Department, the City of Newark, and Mayor Booker to obtain the records in keeping with New Jersey law. This suit shouldn’t be necessary, but the official obstruction in Newark has made it so. In such an instance, everyone should favor openness.”