Fact Check: Convicted cop-killer to speak at SUNY Brockport?

whec.com ^ | 3/14/22 | Nikki Rud

[AbolishCSEU]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — A convicted cop killer—invited to speak at a local college. That's a claim going around on social media.

But is that really true? That's tonight's Fact Check.

Jalil Muntaqim, also known as Anthony Bottom, lives in Brighton. Back in 1971, he killed two New York City Police officers. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. But now he's out on parole, and next month he's scheduled to speak at SUNY Brockport.

According to the posting on Brockport's events calendar, it will be "an intellectual conversation on his time with the Black Panthers and serving nearly 50 years as a political prisoner."

[bobbo666]

If questions from the audience are allowed, I have one.

“Please comment on the right to bear arms. Are you in favor of blacks being allowed to carry a licensed weapon in public — open or concealed?”

I want a fly onna wall for that conversation.

[Organic Panic]

I guess they couldn’t spring Mumia Abu Jamal.

[Leaning Right]

> Please comment on the right to bear arms. ... <

You’d probably get some sort of “death to the white racist oppressors” response. In other words, less of a 1A defense and more of a call to kill, you know, the white racist oppressors.

[Leaning Right]

Sorry, I mean “less of a 2A defense” in my post #23.

[nopardons]

BTTT