FBI Boss Kash Patel Decries Assata Shakur Mourners On-line
FBI Director Kash Patel aimed a social media put up within the path of the late Assata Shakur, referring to her by her birth-given title. Patel additionally framed Assata Shakur as a terrorist who fled the States to flee from “accountability” in connection to the slaying of a New Jersey state trooper.
On Sunday, Director Patel took to X and wrote the next message:
Joanne Chesimard didn’t “struggle for justice.” She murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in chilly blood, then fled to Cuba to flee accountability. The FBI by no means stopped calling her what she was: a terrorist.
Mourning her is spitting on the badge and the blood of each cop who gave their life in service.
Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Military (BLA) and was with Zayd Malik Shakur and Sundiata Acoli once they had been stopped on Might 2, 1973, on the New Jersey Turnpike. A standoff ensued, resulting in an change of gunfire. Foerster was shot and killed, whereas one other officer was wounded. Zayd Shakur was killed, whereas the opposite BLA members had been wounded.
Shakur maintained throughout the trial that she couldn’t have shot and killed the officer, as she was wounded in the best arm. Shakur was finally sentenced to life in jail in 1977 and later escaped a facility in New Jersey with the assistance of BLA members and the Might 19 Communist Group.
Shakur was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984 and lived out her days there whereas being sought by American authorities.
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