FBI targeting Tupac's Godmother

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Legendary activist, scholar, author and former political prisoner Angela Davis (pictured left), who is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is still speaking truth to power, specifically as it pertains to revolutionary freedom fighter, Assata Shakur (pictured right).

In an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan González, Davis said that the FBI placing Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, the first woman to be so designated, “reflects the very logic of terrorism.”

Edited May 7, 2013 by Su and Marvin

[Karee 4,191]

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’.

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According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’.

I believe that's why they used the word "former". Please keep up with the rest of the class, or I'll have your removed.

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I believe that's why they used the word "former". Please keep up with the rest of the class, or I'll have your removed.

She was in prison for opposing the government? I thought she was in jail for aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder. She was then found not guilty. By that logic, anyone sitting in jail awaiting trial is a political prisoner.

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She was in prison for opposing the government? I thought she was in jail for aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder. She was then found not guilty. By that logic, anyone sitting in jail awaiting trial is a political prisoner.

Shakur was falsely convicted of having killed an officer on May 2, 1973. While driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, Assata, Zayd Shakur, and Sundiata Acoli were stopped by state troopers, allegedly for having a “faulty taillight.” A shootout ensued where one state trooper killed Zayd Shakur, and another trooper, Werner Foerster, ended up dead. Shakur was charged with both murders, despite the fact that the other trooper, James Harper, admitted he killed Zayd Shakur.

Assata had been, following police instructions, standing with her hands in the air, when she was shot by Trooper Harper more than once, including a bullet to the back. Trooper Harper lied and said he had seen Shakur reach for a gun, a claim he later recanted. He also claimed she had been in a firing position, something a surgeon who examined her said was “anatomically impossible.” The same surgeon said it was “anatomically necessary” for her arms to have been raised for her to receive the bullet wounds she did. Tests done by the police found that Shakur had not fired a gun, and no physical or medical evidence was presented by the prosecution to back up their claim that she had fired a gun at Trooper Harper.

While she was in trial proceedings, the state attempted to pin six other serious crimes on her, alleging she had carried out bank robberies, kidnappings and attempted killings. She was acquitted three times, two were dismissed and one resulted in a hung jury.

Shakur was put on trial in a county where because of pre-trial publicity 70 percent of people thought she was guilty, and she was judged by an all-white jury. Without any physical evidence to present, the prosecution had to rely totally on false statements and innuendo aimed at playing on the prejudices of the jury pool against Black people, political radicals, and Black revolutionaries in particular. Finally, after years behind bars, the state secured her conviction for the Turnpike shooting.

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She was in prison for opposing the government? I thought she was in jail for aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder. She was then found not guilty. By that logic, anyone sitting in jail awaiting trial is a political prisoner.

No joke. She doesn't get this title based on what I read. Geez, why is everyone a political prisoner?

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Hasn't Tupac & Co. already gone through enough?