Nina Milliken summarized the case of Assata Shakur, who was convicted of murdering State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnkpike in 1973. Shakur is currently ...

Forty years ago this week, a New Jersey jury convicted Joanne D. Chesimard – a.k.a. Assata Shakur — on first ... Before the turnpike shootout, the BLA had ambushed two pairs of NYPD officers ...