Temple Prof Marc Lamont Hill Praises Wanted Cop Killer Assata Shakur
“I pray for her continued safety and protection.”
Marc Lamont Hill is also a frequent guest on CNN, yet somehow this has gone largely unnoticed.
The College Fix reports:
College prof praises cop-killing terrorist, calls her ‘treasured freedom fighter’
A professor at Philadelphia’s Temple University generated backlash on the Internet this week when he openly praised a convicted murderer and terrorist on his Instagram account, stating that the cop-killer “showed me the beauty of struggle.”
Marc Lamont Hill, who teaches media studies and urban education at Temple, posted a picture of Assata Shakur on his Instagram feed to mark her 71st birthday, saying that Shakur “wrote the second book that changed (and saved) my life” and “taught me about the value and power of Freedom Dreams.”
In 1977 Shakur was convicted of murdering a police officer on the New Jersey Turnpike. The first-degree murder conviction carried with it a life sentence, but Shakur escaped from prison two years later, eventually surfacing in Cuba, where she has remained in asylum ever since.
“I pray for her continued safety and protection. I continue to work to demonstrate her innocence,” Hill wrote of the convicted murderer who is has been on the F.B.I.’s most-wanted terrorist list since 2013.
“I implore the State to stop prosecuting an unjust and unfair campaign against one of our most treasured Freedom Fighters,” Hill added of the fugitive.
Thinking about Assata Shakur on her 71st birthday. She wrote the second book that changed (and saved) my life. She taught me about the value and power of Freedom Dreams. She showed me the… https://t.co/CHiTHZ9lgp
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) July 16, 2018
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I remember Marc Lamont Hill on Fox where he call those against Obamacare racists because they were alive during the Jim Crow era.