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Black Panther Cop killer denied parole ninth time
[Guardian] Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board.The three-member parole panel voted this week by two-to-one to keep Muntaqim, aka Anthony Bottom, incarcerated in the maximum security Sullivan correctional facility in upstate New York. His release had been vociferously opposed by the New York city police unions and by the widow of one of the two police officers he was convicted of murdering in 1971. Muntaqim’s ninth denial since he became eligible for parole in 1998 was in stark contrast to the release in April of his fellow Black Liberation Army member and accomplice, Herman Bell. At his parole hearing, Bell had expressed revulsion for the 1971 killings, saying: "There was nothing political about the act, as much as I thought at the time. It was murder and horribly wrong." The Guardian in July profiled Muntaqim’s battle to get out of prison almost half a century after he was arrested for the murders of the two police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones, in a shooting in Harlem. The officers had been drawn to the spot for what they thought was a domestic dispute but were then ambushed. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-19 |
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