All these made up stories stem from Booker being attacked by some elements in Newark for “not being black enough”. Apparently being the son of IBM Executives, being a Rhodes Scholar and going to Yale Law School, means you aren’t “black enough”. But making up stories of drug dealers and someone dying in your arms gives you “cred” and means you “care”.
Via NRO:
In paid speeches and high-profile public appearances, Newark mayor and New Jersey senatorial candidate Cory Booker has often invoked the name of Wazn Miller, the 19-year-old gunned down between a set of housing projects in Newark nine years ago.
I got interested in the 2004 case after reporting on “T-Bone,” the Newark drug pusher and alleged Booker friend whom the mayor often mentioned on the stump; but Booker had told Rutgers University professor Clement Price that T-Bone was, in reality, a composite character. It wasn’t the bare outlines of Booker’s account of the shooting’s aftermath that piqued my curiosity — that Booker was nearby when it happened and helped on the scene — but the cinematic details. Booker has told several audiences that Miller fell into his arms after being shot and bled to death as they waited for an ambulance to arrive on the scene.