Who is Assata Shakur, cop killer granted asylum in Cuba and praised by Black Lives Matter
July 15, 2021 at 10:57 AM EDT
The name of Assata Shakur, a woman convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, has been used by Black Lives Matter to illustrate what the group called Cuba’s "solidarity with oppressed peoples of African descent" as the communist country faced rare anti-government protests this summer.
