When did Assata Shakur become America's Most Wanted? This recent article in the Daily News reveals that Shakur AKA Joanne Chesimard , currently has a $1 million dollar bounty on her head. Shakur, who is on the lamb in Cuba, recently made news when a New York City College student complained to The New York Daily News that the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center naming was an offense to the family of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. Chesimard was convicted of the trooper's murder in 1974 but subsequently escaped, only to flee to Cuba in 1979.
Nah Right has it's own take on the story, with a few shots thrown at The New York Daily News. Can't say I disagree with that take.
It's been proven time an time again that the F.B.I. under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover was targeting black "radicals" and subversive element, such as the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and The Nation of Islam (not to mention the Communist Party) with it's own offensive know as COINTELPRO. Supposedly that initiative ended in 1971, but is it beyond belief that Chesimard was setup similar to Geronimo Pratt?
We've since learned that City College bowed in to the pressure of a sensationalist news story. Should we be surprised?
If you haven't read this article please give it a thorough read. We'll link up a bit later on this.
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Hey, just found this blog on a random search. I'm fairly close to the situation, and it's been up on my blog, All Out for the Fight.
The real story, from my sources close to the ground: the students are sticking to principle and keeping the sign up because they are not going to bow to a police lynch mob tell them who they should honor.
The statements from CCNY and CUNY administration are just that: statements. They may have bowed to the pressure of a group of killer cops, but the students have not.
Stay tuned for more details as they arrive.
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