Fox News More than 60 faculty and staff members at Marquette University are circulating an online petition against their own school for taking down a mural featuring convicted cop killer and the FBI’s first female most wanted terrorist, Joanne Deborah Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur.
Shakur was part of a revolutionary extremist organization called the
“Black Liberation Army.” In 1973, she shot and killed a New Jersey State
Trooper at point-blank range, according to the FBI. Then she escaped
from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba, where she is still believed to be
living.
The mural
showed Shakur’s face with two quotes on a wall inside the Catholic
institution’s “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center,” which provides “a
safe and welcoming space dedicated to dialogue, growth, and empowerment
around gender, sex, and sexuality,” as noted on its Facebook page. [...]
When the university discovered there was a convicted cop-killer on
the wall, they painted over it in May. A statement by the university
said, “this is extremely disappointing as the mural does not reflect the
Guiding Values of Marquette University.”
Stephen Franzoi, Professor Emeritus at Marquette’s Psychology
Department, authored the petition and wrote the latest events “demand a
response,” saying the university adopted “the narrative of pure
vilification” by erasing the image.
“Did the administration consider the chilling impact of the erasure
of the image within the context of present conversations about police
brutality and black life?” the petition reads. “Were the students
consulted? Were they offered an opportunity to engage? [...]
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