NEWS ALERT: Social media erupts after convicted killer wins election

November 9, 2025

From Fox News: A Maine woman who previously served time as a convicted killer was elected to serve on a local city council on Tuesday night, causing a stir on social media in the process.

Angela Walker was elected to the Bangor city council, The New York Post reported, more than 20 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of a man named Derek Rogers in 2002.

The manslaughter conviction stemmed from a fight where Walker was allegedly called a racial slur derogatory toward Native Americans and the man who said it, a Canadian tourist named Derek Rogers, was later found beaten to death and suffocated with sand, according to news reports.

Walker ultimately pleaded guilty to manslaughter, along with her brother, and perjury, earning a sentence of 10 years in prison.

Walker was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder. Now, she says, “That’s my past. I don’t live there anymore and I’m a different person.”

The town of Bangor has no law against people with a criminal record running for office, so Walker ran for city council, and won, despite that she was a convicted murderer.

Bizarrely, it’s the very same Maine city that inspired Stephen King’s horror drama “It.”

Holy Moly. Just saw this. Unbelievable.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) November 6, 2025

Social media users are reacting in shock and outrage:

“Wait… she served 10 years for suffocating someone with sand… and now she’s on City Council?!” one person asked.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) wrote, “Um, wut?”

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt asked, “Honest question. What’s the thought process before a leftist votes for something?”

“New progressive paradigm: The more mentally ill, the more popular,” quipped Tom Elliott.

Journalist Paul Szypula wrote, “WTH is going on? Democrats simply don’t care what their politicians do.”

According to the Bangor Daily News, Walker is actually one of THREE progressive candidates who won a seat on the local city council in Tuesday’s election.

Bangor voters elected Susan Faloon, Daniel Carson and Angela Walker in Tuesday’s election out of a crowded field of nine City Council candidates — Bangor’s largest pool in the last six years.

Faloon was the most popular candidate, with 3,951 votes, and Carson and Walker earned 2,512 and 2,231 votes, respectively.

All three winning candidates were endorsed by the progressive Brewer-based nonprofit Food and Medicine.

The three newcomers will serve three-year terms on a council that has become increasingly chaotic in recent months amid infighting between elected officials and the resignation of the former chair.

Reportedly, Carson, is a communist.