Marc Lamont Hill Breaks Silence on Viral Video of Him Getting Pepper Sprayed Throughout a Discuss

In 2024, scholar, writer and activist Marc Lamont Hill was the sufferer of a terrifying assault throughout a talking engagement that left him and those that witnessed it in full shock. Hill, who has not beforehand spoken concerning the occasion, simply gave us extra particulars concerning the incident and the girl who instigated it.

On the June 12 episode of “The Joe Budden Podcast,” Hill defined that an alleged stalker attacked him with pepper spray at a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day occasion in his native Philadelphia, which passed off throughout the road from his bookstore, Uncle Bobbie’s Espresso & Books. The lady — who apparently believed Hill was a part of a authorities plot towards her — approached the stage the place he was sitting and pepper-sprayed him.

Hill shot behind the stage curtains till safety might restrain the girl.

“She had written a letter to me, saying that she was attempting to speak to me about how the CIA and Joe Biden had been attempting to border her for homicide,” Hill defined.

A video of the incident has not too long ago resurfaced on social media.

Though the incident was extraordinarily critical, host Joe Budden nonetheless managed to discover a option to make a joke. When teased by Budden that the alleged stalker may need been upset a few romance gone mistaken, Hill shortly denied having any ties together with his alleged attacker.

“Not solely did I not hit, I by no means met her earlier than. It was clear she was a loopy particular person, proper?” he requested.

In case you had been questioning, Hill, who has been outspoken about discovering alternate options to calling the police, informed Budden that he understood the girl was mentally in poor health and by no means deliberate to get legislation enforcement concerned.

“You possibly can hear me on the tape say, ‘Don’t name the police,’” he mentioned. “I stroll it like I speak it. She was mentally in poor health. She had been stalking me for a few weeks, and I didn’t know … I by no means met her earlier than.”

Hill shared extra about how he is engaged with the girl’s household because the incident on social media.

“I’ve labored together with her household and group members to allow a restorative course of. By the method, I’ve discovered that she did certainly undergo vital childhood abuse, in addition to critical psychological well being challenges that proceed to this present day. As a substitute of legal prosecution, I’ve finished my greatest to be sure that she receives social and psychological well being help to assist her heal as greatest as attainable,” he wrote partially in a June 12 publish on X.