A Definitive Guide to Media Coverage of Cop Killer Assata Shakur’s Death

Assata Shakur was convicted in 1977 of the first-degree murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster. After escaping from prison in 1979, she became the first woman to land on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.

 Shakur was part of a previous wave of radical left-wing violence. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), a Marxist militant group devoted to "killing cops" and seizing "control of their communities," according to the Maryland state police.

 You’d hardly know it from the media coverage of Shakur’s death on Saturday at the age of 78. She died in Cuba, the Communist nation to which she had fled, from health conditions and advanced age.

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