Assata Shakur's shameless hero-worshippers deserve our disgust and condemnation
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Anyone who fails to denounce allies who celebrate a cop-killer rightfully earns disdain. Take note of the reactions following some left-leaning individuals praising the late “great” Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, a convicted murderer of a New Jersey state trooper who has spent decades in political asylum in Communist Cuba.

Look at the Democratic nominees for New York mayor and New Jersey governor: Zohran Mamdani refuses to criticize the Democratic Socialists of America for their disturbing social-media homage to Shakur; Rep. Mikie Sherrill has notably remained silent on the issue, even as current Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy condemned the DSA’s tribute as “shameful and depraved.”


A tribute image to Assata Shakur with a picture of her and her birth and death dates listed.
A tribute to fugitive cop killer Assata Shakur posted by the Chicago Teachers Union. @CTULocal1/X

Moreover, it seems that Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, is not reprimanding the union’s Chicago branch for honoring Shakur as a “revered elder of Black liberation.”

Randi’s too busy selling her Trump-is-a-fascist book.

On Instagram, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams called Shakur a “Freedom Fighter and Human Rights Icon.” Bronx Assemblyman George Alvarez also paid tribute: “Her life was marked by struggle, resilience, and a relentless fight against oppression” 


NJ gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill speaking into a microphone.
NJ gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill AP

Mamdani’s rumored choice to run NYC schools, ex-Rep. Jamal Bowman, last year justified his decision to glorify the fugitive cop-killer on a Bronx middle school’s “Wall of Honor” mural when he ran the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action. 

Chesimard’s Black Liberation Army — an even-more-extremist offshoot of the Black Panthers — was a Marxist-Leninist gang that spent the 1970s carrying out bombings, murders of police officers, bank robberies and even a skyjacking. 

Bad enough that a few rappers and far-lefties romanticize such monsters; worse that Mamdani, Sherrill, Weingarten and so on pretend it’s OK to treat them as heroes.

At least they’re telling us who they really are.

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