Trooper Werner Foerster
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that Joanne Chesimard has been added to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. Thursday’s bulletin gave Chesimard, a black nationalist, the dubious distinction of being the first woman to be placed on the list.
Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur, was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army when, on May 2, 1973, she was driving through New Jersey with two others. The car was pulled over for a broken taillight and a gunfight ensued with police. One officer and one man from Shakur’s group were killed.
A One Million DollarBlood Money Bounty has been offered for the capture of Assata Shakur.
The enemy is intensifying its efforts to catch our beloved Sister Assata. We must make sure every visitor to this site knows and can defend the honor of Sister Queen Assata, we must make her name a household word like Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King we must ensure that everyone who visits this site, can and will defend our Warrior Queen. Know this also, those of us that call ourselves activists and critics of American politics will be watched closer than before, its time to close ranks. If you were unaware, let it be known, this government’s attempt to oppress us is real. Assata today, you tomorrow.
Despite being injured, she managed to flee from the scene but was eventually arrested and, in 1977, convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. But in 1979, The New York Times reported, she “escaped from Clinton Correctional Institute for Women after three male visitors drew handguns, kidnapped two guards and seized a prison minibus in order to drive out of the grounds to two getaway cars. They left the guards handcuffed but unharmed.”
It’s been widely speculated that Shakur was aided in her escape by the Black Liberation Army. William Kunstler, her trial lawyer, told reporters at the time that Shakur’s health had declined in prison. MORE
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