Aliyah Perez “brought an abundance of love, laughter and light to the world,” the 26-year-old woman’s family wrote in her obituary. Perez, the niece of Milwaukee Common Council President Jose Perez was found dead near 26th St. and Clayton Crest Ave. on Sunday, Feb 26 — a victim of domestic abuse, her family said.
But the young woman might very well be alive today had liberal Milwaukee County judge and Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz not set Perez’s killer free.
Protasiewicz has been accused by her opponent, conservative former Justice Daniel Kelly, of being “soft-on-crime.” As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, on at least three occasions Milwaukee County prosecutors have asked Protasiewicz to sentence felons to prison for harming a child. Each time, the judge rejected the request, granting time served and probation.
She did the same in the case of Elijah Combs.
A Dangerous Man
Elijah Combs, 28, is dead now. The convicted felon died from a self-inflected gunshot wound on Feb. 28 after a police chase and crash on Milwaukee’s south side. Police say Combs fled on foot, shot at police and then turned the gun on himself.
He was wanted in connection with the murder of Aliyah Perez, and considered a primary suspect in what has been described as a domestic dispute.
Combs had been involved in at least one prior brutal domestic assault case, according to court records.
In 2016, he was charged with four felonies related to the battery and strangulation of his girlfriend at the time. Combs was charged with substantial battery-with intent to cause bodily harm; strangulation and suffocation; false imprisonment; and intimidation of a witness — all felonies.
The victim said Combs punched her repeatedly in the face, cutting her lip, breaking her tooth, and causing bruising and swelling.
“The defendant then strangled her again in the bathroom to the point where she could not breathe or talk. The defendant also pushed and kicked and stomped on (victim’s name redacted) all over her body.”
Combs pulled out patches of the woman’s hair, according to police.
He then ordered his victim to clean up the blood splattered throughout the area, the report states. Combs demanded she lay with him on the bed. She did so out of fear, according to the complaint.
The victim estimated the assault lasted about twenty minutes. She said Combs told her he would “end it” if she went to the police. She told officers that she believed Combs would try to kill her.
Stayed and Dismissed
Combs went before Judge Janet Protasiewicz, now the liberal candidate for a nationally watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Hearing all of the evidence against Combs, Protasiewicz dismissed three of the four felony charges, leaving only the battery count. Protasiewicz sentenced Combs to the maximum term of six years on that count, but stayed the sentence and placed him on probation for three years
The judge continued to go easy on Combs even after he was subsequently charged with felony bail jumping.
Protasiewicz could have handed Combs a maximum sentence of nearly 30 years in prison had she not dismissed the other charges — ranging from six to 10 years — and stayed the substantial battery sentence.
Combs might still be in prison today.
Aliyah Perez might still be alive today.
“Aliyah, now our sweet Angel, will be forever missed and far from forgotten,” her obituary states. “We will continue to love and cherish everything you were as we hold you close to our broken hearts. May your light continue to guide us through the darkest of days.”
Her uncle, Milwaukee Common Council President Jose Perez, did not return a call seeking comment. He did issue a statement last week about the loss of his “beautiful niece to domestic violence.”
“The sorrow and pain of losing her has been one of the most difficult things my family and I have ever experienced,” Perez said.
‘Rule of Law’
Protasiewicz’s campaign has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Wisconsin Daily Star. Sam Roecker, a spokesman for Protasiewicz, has told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that her critics are cherry-picking her cases as a judge.
“Right-wing special interests are misleading voters because they want to keep an extreme, out-of-touch right-wing majority on the bench,” Roecker told the publication, referring to the April 4 election that will decide whether conservatives or liberals control the state’s high court.
Kelly, receiving the endorsement of the Milwaukee Police Association on Tuesday, criticized Protasiewicz for returning “dangerous people back to society while law enforcement officers put their lives on the line to keep their communities safe.”
He pointed to multiple serious criminal cases in which Protasiewicz did not order prison time, including the case of a woman who starved her 16-year-old son to death. The teen was so severely malnourished he weighed just 42 pounds at the time of his death.
“The men and women of the Milwaukee Police Association know that we must not allow the Rule of Law to be replaced by the Rule of Janet,” Kelly said in a statement.
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Janet Protasiewicz” by Janet for Justice. Background Photo “Wisconsin Supreme Court” by Royalbroil. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Liberals are in truth “Sub Humans” living out a form of protracted suicide which They try to force on others.
From this article: “Sam Roecker, a spokesman for Protasiewicz, has told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that her critics are cherry-picking her cases as a judge”.
If the death of this woman Perez is the only example of this radical liberal judge’s legacy then it is still far too much pain inflicted on the community. This judge must be held accountable for her irresponsible actions and conduct. VOTE HER OUT!!!
smh, and the communist liberals want to ban guns, as well…Lord how repulsive these bribed Sub Humans truely are…
Norman Thomas 1884-1968, Leader of the CPUSA. (Communist Party United States of America:)
“When we introduced into the United States organism the poison of liberalism its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal illness–blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their death agony.”
From Communist Organizer Bella Dodd:
In order to annihilate the institutions of the American people … we have replaced [their mechanism] by the chaotic license of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, but principally into education and training as being the cornerstones of a free existence.” (9)
Wisconsin needs to make sure this Liberal POS is voted out.
She is responsible
for this senseless
murder.
She got elected because people don’t take these elections seriously. The Republican turnout in the primary was a disgrace! If Republicans don’t get serious and participate they better get used to bowing down to insane liberals! Wake up, take part, no more Silent Majority, can’t trust anyone to protect your rights except yourself!
Well, when Wisconsin learns and gets rid of this type of liberal trash maybe they can get back to being Americans again. I won’t hold my breath.
Too many don’t take part in these elections. Too many don’t even notice candidates. Then they vote based on the last lying headline they read or commercial they heard.
She need fired and disbarred immediately. Time these liberals pay for the harm they have done to America that means all politicians, judges, lawyers,even military, millionaires billionaires all involved in trying to destroy America and Our Constitution as Written, and families should be able to sue these criminals politicians judges