A black student organization at the University of California at Berkeley is demanding the university rename a building on campus after Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther, convicted cop killer and the first woman named to the FBI's Most-Wanted Terrorist List.

 

A jury convicted Shakur of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1979. She escaped prison and fled to Cuba. The FBI calls her a domestic terrorist. In 2013, the agency added her to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List, alongside several members of Al Qaeda, airline hijackers and bombers.

 

But to the Black Student Union at Berkeley, Shakur is an "icon of resistance within oppressed communities (who) represents black resilience in the face of state-sanctioned violence." They demanded the university rename Barrows Hall, named after former Chancellor David Barrows, "Shakur Hall." In 2013, Shakur declared her innocence and called her trial in 1979 a legal lynching by an all-white jury. Shakur, formerly known as Joann Chesimard, belonged to the Black Liberation Army at the time of the shooting.

 

 

 

Student group demands California university rename building after convicted cop killer | Fox News

It's California so they have a shot.

It's California so they have a shot.

 

Would it be horrible if California seceded from the United States and formed its own country?? I would be OK with it. As a country, it could charge its citizens much more in taxes than the 13% it charges now as a state tax. That should be enticing to the California legislature...

She's Tupacs aunt.

And some on here call right wingers nuts . ( they are, but get real )

I don't have a problem with a name change but I'll pass on glorifying a convicted cop killer who is on the run.