Shakur escaped prison in 1979 with the help of BLA members who pretended to be visitors. However, Shakur has always maintained that she was innocent of all charges. The verdict of the court was life imprisonment. She was charged with murder and six assault charges. In fact, the police shot her twice before arresting her and taking her to court. Having been present at the scene, the police insisted that Shakur was responsible for the murder of Mr. There must have been a misunderstanding that led to the deaths of one BLA member and a state trooper named Werner Foerster. Shakur and two members of the BLA were pulled over by state troopers on May 2, 1973. The group believed in exercising open resistance. The BLA was another rebellious Black organization. Discontented with the group’s actualization of its vision, she left and joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Brief Revolutionary Historyĭuring the late 1960s, Shakur joined the Black Panthers Group. She is the late Tupac Shakur’s godmother and was a member of a group known as the Black Panther. Shakur is a revolutionary African American woman who has been a fugitive in Cuba for over 30 years. The reason she gives for changing her name was that she needed a name that reflected her state of feeling more like an African woman rather than a European as her name depicted. Her birth name was Joanne Deborah Chesimard but she changed her name to Assata Shakur in 1971. Assata Shakur was born in New York City on July 16, 1947.
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