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Jalil Muntaqim’s Family Awaits Him
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
02 Jul 2019

Billie Bottoms Brown, the 85 year-old mother of Black Panther political prisoner Anthony Bottoms, also known as Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, hopes to take her son on a sea cruise if he is granted parole in September, his eleventh appearance before the board. Muntaqim has spend 48 years in prison in the death of two New York City cops. His co-defendant, Herman Bell, was released last year over the objections of the governor and the mayor. Billie Bottoms Brown says she’ll try to help Muntaqim “relax, unwind and try to reacclimatehimself to outside of those walls.”

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