Inviting a cop killer is a question of judgment and a college’s basic sense of right and wrong.
Goddard Made a Bad Choice in Its Commencement Speaker. Now It Should Revoke This Cop Killer’s Invite
This week, Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., announced that its commencement address would be delivered by Mumia Abu-Jamal, an unrepentant cop killer serving a life sentence for murdering 25-year-old Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner.
I cannot fathom how anyone could think it appropriate to honor a cold-blooded murderer—one who ambushed a police officer, shot that officer in the back, and while that officer lay wounded and defenseless on the ground, lowered a gun to the officer’s face and took his life.
Abu-Jamal has never apologized or expressed any regret for his heinous crime. To the contrary, after the murder, Abu-Jamal boasted, “I killed the [police officer], and I hope the [police officer] dies.”
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