Brit Hume expressed amazement at a story in the Daily Caller about the background of a protest speaker that isn’t really talked about in the mainstream media.
This is really amazing. Colleges shout down Ann Coulter & others, but get a load of this speaker nobody protested. https://t.co/IuCLTrKSm3
— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 28, 2017
It’s pretty shocking.
From the Daily Caller:
Convicted felon Donna Hylton spoke on a civil rights panel at a fancypants college earlier this month but completely failed to mention that she — along with several others — kidnapped a man, forcibly sodomized him with a steel pole and then tortured him to death. When a student at the event asked Hytlon about the heinous crime, a second panelist loudly berated the student for having “embarrassed” Hylton.
The panel, titled Ella Baker Day, occurred on the evening of April 13 at Manhattanville College in the swanky suburbs of New York City. A single year of tuition, fees and room and board at Manhattanville costs $56,550.
Hylton claims that she didn’t kill him and she didn’t hurt him, and that she was under duress and coercion, and blamed her incarceration on her poverty. She also blamed Breitbart News for spreading the story, but how is it possible that she was convicted and claim that she was completely innocent? I guess it happens…
Even Snopes, which is a left-wing run site, admits it:
Hylton, who was born in Jamaica, took part in the 1985 kidnapping, torture, and murder of 62-year-old real estate broker and alleged con man Thomas Vigliarolo (also rendered as Vigliarole). Hylton was one of six other people (three men and three women) who drugged and kidnapped Vigliarolo and held him captive for two to three weeks while he was starved, burned, beaten, tortured, and ultimately asphyxiated in a trunk.
Hylton received a sentence of 25-to-life on second-degree murder charges for her part in the killing, was released after serving 27 years of that sentence, subsequently earned a bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science and a master’s degree in English from Mercy College, and now works as an activist, public speaker, and community health advocate for Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s.
How much of a role Hylton took in the killing of Vigliarolo is unclear, even thirty years later. She was the one who delivered a ransom note to a friend of Vigliarolo’s (an act that led to her capture), but those involved in prosecuting the murder case described her role as “secondary” and tagged others as the “true malefactors.”
But you won’t hear it in the mainstream media.