Anyone who who refuses to condemn allies who celebrate a cop-killer deserves your contempt, so note the reactions after various lefties hailed the late “great” Assata Shakur, a k a Joanne Chesimard, the convicted murderer of a New Jersey state trooper who spent the last half-century enjoying political asylum in Communist Cuba.
Consider the Democratic nominees for New York mayor and New Jersey governor: Zohran Mamdani refuses to condemn the Democratic Socialists of America for their sick social-media tribute to Shakur; Rep. Mikie Sherrill has simply been notably silent, even as incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy called the DSA tribute “shameful and depraved.”
A tribute to fugitive cop killer Assata Shakur posted by the Chicago Teachers Union. @CTULocal1/XAnd it seems American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten won’t slap down the union’s Chicago affiliate 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 APMamdani’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.






