[PJ] On Sunday, the Women's March Twitter account wished a happy birthday to the number one "most wanted terrorist" on the FBI's list, a cop killer who escaped from a life sentence for first-degree murder. The Twitter account later defended this action, saying that although the terrorist "took a militant approach," they can still "appreciate her work.""Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur! Today's #SignOfResistance, in Assata's honor, is by @MeloniousFunk," the account tweeted on Sunday.
"Mama Assata Shakur" is the alias for one Joanne Deborah Chesimard, who ranks number one on the FBI's list of "most wanted terrorists." The agency is still offering $1 million as a reward for information which results in her capture.
A member of the revolutionary extremist Black Liberation Army, Chesimard and her accomplices shot one policeman and executed another at point-blank range in 1973. Before this, she was wanted for several felonies, including bank robbery. While serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, she escaped from prison in 1979. She remains at large in Cuba.
Even a sympathetic profile from Britain's The Guardian newspaper noted that the terrorist, while celebrated among some in the hip-hop community, was part of an organization that took part "in at least 38 criminal incidents."
"You have to look at the history of the BLA," FBI special agent Barbara Woodruff told The Guardian. "Even though she was convicted of one murder, [Chesimard] was part of an organization which, from the 1970s to 1984, were involved in at least 38 criminal incidents, including armed assaults, assassinations, bombings, hijackings -- of those 38, 18 were against law enforcement officers."
No less a figure than CNN host Jake Tapper castigated the Women's March for wishing Chesimard a happy birthday.
"Shakur is a cop-killer fugitive in Cuba," Tapper tweeted. "This, ugly sentiments from [Linda Sarsour] & [the Chicago Dyke March] ...Any progressives out there condemning this?"
Related article at the Daily Caller: Dem Senators Decline To Condemn Women’s March For Supporting Terrorist