Blue City Voters Elect Convicted Killer To City Hall

Bangor, Maine, voters just sent a convicted killer to City Hall.

Angela Walker, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the brutal 2002 death of a Canadian tourist, won a seat on the Bangor City Council on Tuesday — and she did it without even belonging to a political party.

Walker racked up 2,231 votes, finishing third in a nine-way race. Democrats Susan Faloon and Daniel Carson also nabbed seats on the council. All three victors were backed by Food and Medicine, a local progressive nonprofit, according to the Bangor Daily News.

But it’s Walker’s past that’s raising eyebrows — and for good reason. Her victim, 47-year-old Derek Rogers of Canada, was beaten and suffocated to death on Old Orchard Beach in 2002 after what prosecutors described as a burst of senseless rage.

Walker, then known as Angela Humphrey, pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter and perjury in Rogers’ killing, according to Seacoastonline. She was sentenced to 10 years behind bars.

Prosecutors said Rogers encountered Walker, her brother Benjamin, his girlfriend, and a 13-year-old on the beach. After a heated exchange, Walker shoved sand into Rogers’ nose and mouth, suffocating him.

At first, she tried to pin the crime on her brother and his girlfriend. But investigators caught her lying. “The indictment against Ms. Humphrey is stronger than against her brother,” Assistant Attorney General Fernand LaRochelle said at the time.

Fearing that the siblings blaming each other would confuse jurors, prosecutors cut a deal — dropping a murder charge in exchange for a guilty plea to manslaughter.

Walker later claimed she lashed out because Rogers said something racist about her Sioux heritage. At the time, she was already behind bars for violating probation in an earlier assault case.

Two decades later, she’s an elected official.

Whether Walker has truly repented is anyone’s guess. But her victory fits a growing pattern — progressives elevating the “rehabilitated” no matter how dark the past, and voters shrugging off the violence that once shocked a community.

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