NY Democrats, Republicans Alike Decry CUNY Grad’s ‘Hate-Filled’ Commencement Speech
View Source | June 1, 2023 7:43 pm
- New City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is among the latest to decry a CUNY law school graduate’s “hate-filled” commencement speech.
- The mayor also said Wednesday that he’d have denounced the comments on stage had he heard them.
- The comments were made May 12 by law grad Fatima Mousa Mohammed.
- Adams was at the public college’s commencement ceremony but left before the comments were made.
- Mohammed called for a “revolution” to rid the legal system of “white supremacy” while ripping the NYPD and claiming Israel carries out “indiscriminate” murder.
- Meanwhile, state GOP lawmaker are calling for CUNY to be defunded over the incident.
- Republican state legislators on Thursday demanded Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul withhold taxpayer funds from any City University of New York campus that allows incendiary rhetoric at school-sponsored events.
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