Cory Booker's Statement on Jersey City Attack

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7. It was not Cory Booker's job to announce conclusions that law enforcement had not yet made.

Neither he nor anyone not involved in the investigation is supposed to "figure it out" and announce his assumptions to the public, mere hours after the event. Law enforcement had not yet said that the atttack was targeted -- but Cory Booker was dog-whistling to antisemites because he didn't get ahead of the investigators?

The immediate reports about the crime suggested the the officer who was killed had come across a crime in progress at a cemetery, possibly involving a stolen van, and a shoot-out had ensued. That's all. Yes, of course, virtually everyone thought it was probably not incidental that the shooters had moved to a kosher grocery. But Cory Booker is a Senator, not a random tweeter, and for him to declare an event a hate crime before the facts were in would have been grossly irresponsible.

You're still making excuses for your own bad behavior. You slandered a friend. What you should be doing is apologizing.