Cop killer honored

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This woman was Tupac Shakur's godmother. Interesting.

Report: Police Groups Angered by 'Terrorist' Honor at New York College

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
By Sara Bonisteel



A New York City college is under fire for honoring a former student who happens to be a fugitive from justice.

The Daily News reported Monday that police groups are angered that the City College of New York has allowed a community center on its Manhattan campus to carry the name of convicted cop killer and domestic "terrorist" Assata Shakur....

In 2005, the FBI named Shakur, whose real name is Joanne Deborah Chesimard, to its list of most wanted domestic terrorists, placing a $1 million bounty on her head...

In 1977, Shakur was convicted of the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a routine traffic stop. Shakur had been a member of the Black Liberation Army and was wanted in connection with several felonies, including bank robbery, the FBI said.

She skipped out on the life sentence, escaping from prison in Clinton, N.J., on Nov. 2, 1979. She's now believed to be living in Cuba.

The Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center on the CCNY campus was named in 1989, the paper reported. It is shared by three groups: Students for Educational Rights, the Student Liberation Action Movement and Dominicans 2000.

Guillermo Morales, also exiled in Cuba, is a former member of FALN, a Puerto Rican liberation group that claimed responsibility for a rash of bombings in New York in the mid-1970s.

I'm pretty pissed!!!