Assata Shakur
American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army · United States · Writers · Lived 1947 to 2025 · aged 78
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Something wrong?Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
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New York City Police Department mugshot of Shakur, April 1971
Police stand next to the patrol car that was destroyed by a hand grenade attack on December 20, 1971.
William Kunstler, the chief of Shakur's defense staff.
Shakur's broken clavicle was a key element of her defense, and the implications of her injury for the differing accounts of the shootout were points of contention.
Shakur was kept in solitary confinement on Rikers Island for 21 months.
A photo of fugitive Assata Shakur, distributed by the FBI in 1982.In their orbit
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Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.
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