Consistently proving that bullying others to get what he wants is what he does best, Donald Trump recently demanded that Cuba release Assata Shakur and return her to The States. Well Cuba responded to #45’s demands with an emphatic “no,” which is surely causing him to have a temper tantrum. https://twitter.com/vibe_viva/status/876845275909951488 As reported by Vibe, […]
So sad… Shaneka Thompson Recovering After Shooting A woman who dated NYPD executioner Ismaaiyl Brinsley less than a year before his murderous rampage isn’t dead as originally thought, but recovering in a hospital. Brinsley shot 29-year-old Shaneka Thompson in the stomach Saturday before going to New York to kill two cops. The NY Post reports: The ex-girlfriend of the gunman who fatally ambushed two NYPD cops after shooting her in the stomach banged on a neighbor’s door, yelling, “I can’t die like this! Please help me!” Shaneka Thompson, 29, the only survivor of Ismaaiyl Brinsley’s murderous rampage, pleaded for help from Yevette Seay, who saw the bloodied victim through her peephole and called 911. “I told her to hang in there. I was afraid to ask her too many questions because she was hysterical,” Seay told the Associated Press. Thompson, an Air Force reservist of Owings Mills, Md., was in critical condition at the University of Maryland Medical Center. “She’s not in any danger anymore,” her granddad, James Delly, told The Post. “Hopefully, she will make a full recovery.” Brinsley shot Thompson about 5:45 a.m. Saturday after entering her home with a key he wasn’t supposed to have, the Wall Street Journal reported. He then fled with her cellphone to New York City, where he executed NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in what investigators believe was a bid to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Seay said she had heard her neighbors fight before, but that she got out of bed Saturday morning because of the screaming. “I could hear something going on and it wasn’t pleasant. Then I heard some screaming, then she went out onto her balcony and screamed for help,” Seay said. Thompson yelled: “He shot me! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die.” Seay said Thompson pleaded for her to open her door, but she kept it closed because she didn’t know what was happening. Cops arrived about seven minutes after her 911 call, she said. Brinsley called Thompson’s mother about 6 a.m. to say the shooting was accidental and that he hoped she would recover, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. Poor girl. Here’s to hoping she has a full recovery! Instagram
Should Assata be extradited back to America ?? Assata Shakur Will Not Be Extradited Back To America By Cuba Havana drew the line at giving back American fugitives granted asylum in Cuba , after NJ Governor Chris Christie urged President Obama to demand extradition of a convicted cop-killer before reestablishing bilateral ties. Via RT USA reports: The person Christie wants back in a US jail is Assata Shakur, an activist, former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (BLA), who was the first woman to be placed by the FBI on its most-wanted list. Shakur, whose name was Joanne Chesimard at the time, was tried and convicted to life in prison for killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout in 1973. A BLA member sitting in the car with Shakur was killed in the same incident, while Shakur herself and a second police officer were wounded. It took three trials for a verdict to be reached. Amid disparity in accounts by the police and some eyewitnesses and medical evidence pointing to Shakur inability to shoot a firearm after her hands were wounded in the gun battle, she was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison. Two years later she escaped and remains a fugitive. She fled to Cuba and was granted asylum on the grounds of being persecuted by the US for her political activism. The decision may have been affected by the no fewer than six other criminal trials that Shakur faced in her home country between 1973 and 1977 – all ending with either acquittal or dismissal of the charges. For US law enforcement Shakur remains a dangerous criminal on the run, meriting a place on the FBI’s most-wanted list and a $2 million bounty combined from the bureau and the New Jersey state police. Republican Governor Christie demanded that her extradition be made a condition for America’s normalizing ties with Cuba in blunt terms. “Cuba’s provision of safe harbor to Chesimard by providing political asylum to a convicted cop killer … is an affront to every resident of our state, our country, and in particular, the men and women of the New Jersey State Police,” Christie wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama. “I urge you to demand the immediate return of Chesimard before any further consideration of restoration of diplomatic relations with the Cuban government.” But Havana apparently is not willing to negotiate on Christie or any other person granted asylum in Cuba, declaring it is the legitimate right of a sovereign state. “We’ve explained to the US government in the past that there are some people living in Cuba to whom Cuba has legitimately granted political asylum,” Josefina Vidal, Cuba’s point person for the reengagement with the US after decades of hostilities, told AP on Monday. She added that the two nations have no extradition treaty and that the US has “given shelter to dozens and dozens of Cuban citizens. “Some of them [are] accused of horrible crimes, some accused of terrorism, murder and kidnapping, and in every case the US government has decided to welcome them,” she said. An outraged Christie responded to Vidal’s statement later in the day. “So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world – certainly much more just than anything that’s happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers – she is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted,” he said, branding the Cuban government “thugs.” Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House’s National Security Council, said the Obama administration will “continue to press in our engagement with the Cuban government for the return of US fugitives in Cuba to pursue justice for the victims of their crimes.” Discuss…