Activists aligned with the “Defund the police” movement honored convicted cop-killer and former Black militant Assata Shakur, dead at 78.
New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy said the tributes for one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives who fled to Cuba after escaping a New Jersey women’s prison in 1979 with the help of armed members of the Black Liberation Army were “shameful and depraved.”
“She was convicted of the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who was executed in cold blood,” Murphy wrote on X, replying to the Chicago Teachers Union “honoring” Shakur’s “legacy.” “There are so many worthy heroes to celebrate. She is not one of them.”
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