On Fox, Police Widow Blasts College For Honoring Her Husband's Killer

Matthew Balan | October 1, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 30 September 2014 edition of Kelly File on Fox News Channel, Maureen Faulkner, the widow of murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, berated the graduating students at Goddard College in Vermont for honoring her husband's killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, as their commencement speaker: "I am just absolutely outraged that they would have such a hate-filled murderer on as a commencement speaker...he murdered my husband with malice and pre-meditation. He is evil."

Host Megyn Kelly noted that the college administration, which is standing behind the outgoing class, trumpeted Abu-Jamal as an "award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition...a resident of death row for 29 years...hosts a nationally-syndicated prison radio show, and his murder trial has been the subject of great debate." Faulkner replied by not only targeting the school and its students, but also the criminal justice system:

MAUREEN FAULKNER, HUSBAND MURDERED BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: Well, all I can say is, he is a murderer and...he lost his voice when he put a bullet between my husband's eyes. And I still do not understand this justice system, and why they are allowing him to speak. They are saying it's his constitutional right? And from what I understand, the Justice Department is – actually, in Pennsylvania, the DOJ in Pennsylvania are saying, they are so sorry that – you know, this college is allowing him to speak. Why doesn't the justice system say he's not able to speak?

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