'Squad's' Jamaal Bowman honored radical Black activist, convicted murderer on middle school's 'Wall of Honor'

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y. honored radical Black activist and murderer Assata Shakur while serving as principal of a New York City middle school.

Shakur, whose real name is JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black nationalist group Black Liberation Army and was serving a life sentence for the fatal shooting of the officer before escaping from prison in 1979 with the help of Mutulu Shakur, another radical Black activist praised by Bowman in the video. She fled to Cuba, where she remains a wanted domestic terrorist today. Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on X at @BGillespieAL.

"Each and every member of the Wall of Honor has played a major role in moving our society from a bigoted, oppressive existence toward a world of freedom, justice and equality," Bowman, who was the founder of the school and served as its principal until 2019, said in the video, which was first reported on by the Huffington Post, before naming various other less-controversial figures alongside both Shakurs, like former President Barack Obama and Booker T. Washington.