Hunter College placed a professor on leave days after she sparked massive backlash for making “abhorrent” comments about black students on a hot mic during a virtual meeting.
🚨 HOT MIC MOMENT.
— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) February 23, 2026
A Hunter College associate professor is facing backlash after her mic allegedly stayed on during a Zoom call, capturing what’s being described as a “racist rant.”
Students say they were shocked.
Officials are now reviewing the situation.
What should happen… pic.twitter.com/ZGQUgNHtDk
The move comes after Allyson Friedman, an associate biology professor at Hunter College, was caught inadvertently interrupting a black eighth-grade student’s concerns about the potential shutdown of her Upper West Side public school during a public Community Education Council meeting on Feb 10.
“I write to share an update about actions that Hunter College is taking as a result of the incident during a recent virtual meeting of the New York City School District 3 Community Education Council in which abhorrent remarks were heard coming from a district parent who also is a Hunter employee,” Hunter College president Nancy Cantor wrote in a statement on Wednesday.
