livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Trump to Cuba: Return woman convicted in NJ trooper's murder
MIAMI — President Donald Trump has demanded that Cuba return a woman convicted in the murder of a New Jersey state trooper.
Joanne Chesimard, a leader of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted on March 25, 1977, of eight counts of murder, robbery and assault in the killing of State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Six years later, in 1979, Chesimard escaped and fled to Cuba, where she has lived in political asylum since. She now goes by the name Assata Shakur.
In 2015, when then-President Barack Obama reopened relations between the United States and Cuba, there was hope that Chesimard would be returned to finish her life sentence. But she remains free today, even though the Obama administration said her return would be part of diplomatic negotiations with the communist regime.
http://www.northjersey.com/story/ne...renews-call-cop-killers-return-cuba/99595894/
MIAMI — President Donald Trump has demanded that Cuba return a woman convicted in the murder of a New Jersey state trooper.
Joanne Chesimard, a leader of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted on March 25, 1977, of eight counts of murder, robbery and assault in the killing of State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Six years later, in 1979, Chesimard escaped and fled to Cuba, where she has lived in political asylum since. She now goes by the name Assata Shakur.
In 2015, when then-President Barack Obama reopened relations between the United States and Cuba, there was hope that Chesimard would be returned to finish her life sentence. But she remains free today, even though the Obama administration said her return would be part of diplomatic negotiations with the communist regime.
http://www.northjersey.com/story/ne...renews-call-cop-killers-return-cuba/99595894/
