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Communist Convicted Of Killing Cop Dies Decades After Escaping Prison, Officials Say
Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a state trooper before fleeing to Cuba, died Friday, according to a press release. In 1977, the then-29-year-old…
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DANIEL MCCARTHY: Assata Shakur And Other Parents Of Political Violence
As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka…

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Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947) is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and is currently wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million FBI reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the Attorney General of New Jersey.

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