Her daughter and Cuban government said that Isa Shakur, a black liberation activist who gave political asylum in Cuba after her escape in 1979 from an American prison where she was serving a life imprisonment for killing a police officer, and her daughter and the Cuban government died.
Shakur, born Joan Deborah Chisiman, died on Thursday in the capital of Havana due to “health conditions and age”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba He said in a statement. Shakour’s daughter, Kacoya Shakur, confirmed the death of her mother in the Facebook post.
New Jersey officials, where Shakour was arrested, convicted and imprisoned, said she was 78 years old.
Member Black Tiger Party The Black Liberation Army, the Shakur case has long been symbolic of relations between the United States and Cuba. American authorities, including President Donald Trump, during His first termHe called on her return from the Communist Nation for decades.
The FBI has placed Shakur on the “” ” The most desirable“But, in telling her – and in the minds of her supporters – she was followed up for crimes that she did not commit or was justifying her.
On May 2, 1973, Shakur and two others were withdrawn by New Jersey State Police forces because the car they were driving were made of rear lights.
This was followed by a fiery battle and the killing of a soldier, Werner Formster, and another wound. One of Shakur’s comrades was also killed.
The citizen of New York City fled, but he was finally arrested. It was convicted of death, armed theft and other crimes in 1977 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Shakour was accused of additional banking stealing and in unmatched shooting for another police officer, but most of those charges were rejected or resulted in their acquittal.
Shakour prison period was short -term. In November 1979, members of the Black Liberation Army, who pretended as visitors, stormed the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women, and two guards, and they ran a prison car to break it.
Shakur disappeared before she eventually appeared in 1984 in Cuba, where Fidel Castro gave her asylum.
The introduction of Shakur Safe Harbour was one of the most famous examples of Cuba’s alignment with what it describes as the revolutionary forces that struggle against the repressive capitalist Empire to the north.
Just as Cuba supported the anti -colonial and left -wing forces in Africa, central and southern America, the Cuban government saw the armed black liberation movement in the United States as part of a global revolutionary conflict.
A member of the Board of Directors of New Jersey Michael Inganamort, who sponsored a decision last year calling for Cuba to hand over Shakur, gave his regret on Friday that “justice never served” on the death of Forster, while the labor union, which represents New Jersey officers, rejects Shakur “for its crime and cheese.”
The governor of the state of New Jersey Phil Murphy and state police director, Patrick Calman, said they are “strongly opposed” to any attempt to return Shakor’s remains to the United States.
“Unfortunately, it seems that it passed without being completely responsible for its hideous crimes,” they said in a joint statement. “Unlike his killer, Trooper Foerster did not have an opportunity to live in his days in peace.”
Sundiata Acoli, who was also convicted of the killing of Foerster, was. The conditional release was granted In 2022 he was imprisoned for about three decades.
There Writings over the yearsShakur confirmed that she did not shoot anyone and her hands were in the air when she was injured during the shooting.
Recently, her writings have become a massive cry during Black life movement is important The movement, although opponents criticized its words as being affected by the Marxist and Communist ideology.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win,” Shakur wrote in “Autobiography,” which was originally published in 1988. ”We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing but our chains.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots Inc. has pledged. It is a group of ethnic justice activists from all over the United States, “fighting in its honor and memory.”
Amalia Cyrill, the early organization of the BLM movement, expressed her grief that Shakur died during the increasing period of tyranny.
“The world in this era needs a kind of courage and radical love that he practiced if we would stay on it,” said Cyrill, whose late mother was part of the Black Panthers in New York.
Shakur’s influence extended to the world of music. She was close to the family of late rapper Toubak Shakur, who considered her Arabism.
The general enemy, and Hip Hop Political Group Rock & Roll Hall of Am is believed to be the first major artist to point to Shakur. The 1988 song “Rebel Love A Leating”, from the album that takes a nation, includes the lyrics “Chesimard”, in reference to its legal name.
Joint rapper told Shakur’s story in his song “A Song for ASSATA” for the year 2000. The invitation of the Grammy Prize for a hair event in the White House in 2011, during the Obama administration, sparked anger from conservatives and law enforcement groups who felt that he was not respected for FOSERSTER and the police on a large scale.
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The Associated Press Aaron Morrison and Michael Weisstein in New York contributed to this story.
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This story was corrected to reflect that Shakur was charged with murder, not killing in the shooting of two other police officers.
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