Fire-breathing, disgraced civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart isn’t letting terminal cancer slow down her hate — saying in a recent interview that the thugs who gunned down cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge are actually “avengers.”
“They are avengers,” Stewart bizarrely ranted during an interview from her Brooklyn home, where she continues to battle the late-stage breast cancer that sprung her from prison. “They spoke for some of us when they did that.”
“They are not brazen, crazed, you know, insane killers,” the loon babbled. “They are avenging deaths that are never and have never been avenged since the ’60s and ’70s.”
The misguided diatribe continued with the 76-year-old saying she believed the slayings had, for now, acted as “a deterrent” in the killings of unarmed civilians by police.
The terrorist sympathizer was serving 10 years in federal lockup for helping client Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — while he was serving a life sentence for plotting to blow up five New York landmarks — exchange messages from behind bars with fellow terrorists in Egypt.
Stewart was granted “compassionate release” in January 2014 after she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, prompting prosecutors and prison officials to advocate on her behalf. She was supposed to remain behind bars until 2018.
The disbarred attorney went on to condone violence as a means to a peaceful end, saying the killing of cops allowed “the more peaceable shepherds among us to approach the wolf.”
If given the chance to speak to the families of murdered officers, Stewart said, she would say “they enlisted in an army that maybe they never realized was put out there to ‘keep the peace’ for those who are very interested in maintaining things the way they are.”
Formal federal prosecutor Annemarie McAvoy, appalled at Stewart’s remarks, called the rant “really unbelievable.”
“It’s sad,” said McAvoy, who now teaches students about terrorist financing and money laundering at Columbia University.
“She had such a lapse of judgment in helping known terrorists communicate with each other, which is why she was sent to jail,” McAvoy continued. “Obviously jail did not rehabilitate her thought process.”
With Post wires