Who is Assata Shakur, convicted cop killer granted asylum in Cuba and praised by Black Lives Matter
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The name of Assata Shakur, a woman convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, has been used by Black Lives Matter to illustrate what the group called Cuba’s "solidarity with oppressed peoples of African descent" as the communist country faced rare anti-government protests this summer.
But Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc., in a statement on Twitter blamed the U.S. embargo for Cuba’s economic devastation while at the same time praising the Cuban regime for its effort to protect "Black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur." A former New Jersey law enforcement officer told Fox News that Shakur's asylum in Cuba is "unnacceptable.""Chesimard being given sanctuary in Cuba is completely unacceptable to us," retired New Jersey State Police Major Al Della Fave told Fox News. "Peaceful protest is one thing, but executing a police officer on the side of the road is murder. With regard to BLM, many in Law Enforcement see BLM as the BLA (Black Liberation Army) reincarnated - except the leaders figured how to get rich."More Related News