{"id":96870,"date":"2016-05-22T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96870"},"modified":"2016-05-22T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:47:37","slug":"we-are-assatas-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96870","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are Assata\u2019s Daughters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment<\/a>: If you think the Trayvon Martin Foundation was named in bad taste, I present to you Daughters of Assata:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.assatasdaughters.org\/<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Assata\u2019s Daughters\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is Assata? Full name Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron. From wikipedia:<\/p>\n

In May 1973, Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, in which she was accused of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and grievously assaulting Trooper James Harper.[6] BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed in the incident, and Shakur was wounded.[6] Between 1973 and 1977, Shakur was indicted in relation to six other incidents\u2014charged with murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping\u2014resulting in three acquittals and three dismissals. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of Foerster and of seven other felonies related to the shootout.[7]<\/p>\n

Shakur was incarcerated in several prisons in the 1970s. She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba in 1984 after living as a fugitive for a few years, and received political asylum. She has been living in Cuba ever since. Since May 2, 2005, the FBI has classified her as a domestic terrorist and offered a $1 million reward for assistance in her capture. On May 2, 2013, the FBI added her to the Most Wanted Terrorist List; the first woman to be listed.[8] On the same day, the New Jersey Attorney General offered to match the FBI reward, increasing the total reward for her capture to $2 million.[9]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment: If you think the Trayvon Martin Foundation was named in bad taste, I present to you Daughters of Assata: http:\/\/www.assatasdaughters.org\/ \u201cWe are Assata\u2019s Daughters\u201d Who is Assata? Full name Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron. From wikipedia: In May … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t