“Applicants for Congress don’t most often have working buddies, however I do and my working mate will likely be with me each step of the way in which. Alison has impressed me to take a stand,” Parker, a Democrat, stated within the spot honoring his daughter, a WDBJ journalist shot to loss of life all over an on-camera interview in 2015.
Digital camera operator Adam Ward additionally used to be gunned down. The killer, a former co-worker on the station in Roanoke, shot himself to loss of life.
“Other folks ask, ‘Why are you doing this? Politics is a cesspool, you’ll get attacked,’” the congressional hopeful stated within the video launched Thursday. “Neatly, that each one could also be true. However it’s not anything in comparison to shedding a kid.”
Within the years following Parker’s loss of life, her father changed into a staunch recommend for gun keep watch over and referred to as out tech firms for permitting the proliferation of violent content material — together with pictures of his daughter’s killing — on their platforms.