And the medical evidence shows that her hands would've had to been raised when she was shot because of the entry wound to the collar bone. The cop said he shot her while she was firing at him. Also, it was medically impossible for her shoot a gun with the nerve damage she had from the shot, that broke her clavicle. This was the original hands up don't shoot.
This recent move to ramp up efforts to get her and putting her on the FBI's 10 most wanted list is so petty and childish. She didn't shoot the cop. She did do some other crimes, robberies and stuff in the early 70's but who gives a fukk. She's not a threat to anyone now. If these a$$hole feds weren't so full of dumb egotistical pride (and weren't demons) they would say leaving Assata in peace is a miniscule penance for all the crimes they committed during COINTELPRO (most notably the murder of Fred Hampton) and call it a day. But no, they would rather inflame national racial tension at a very volatile time by digging it back because they can't get over one massive L they took 40 years ago.
And yes, it was like some 007 shyt how the BLA got the drop on prison guards and broke her out and Cuba gave her exile. It's funny how people always overreact and talk about how crazy the world is getting just because we live in an age of the internet and social media. Back in the 60's and 70's, the BLA and the Panthers were shooting it with cops in the street. Rich white heiress and socialite Patti Hearst got kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and brainwashed into joining them and committing a bank robbery with them.
The Weather Underground were blowing shyt up. Jonathan Jackson and them strong arming a whole courtroom and taking the judge hostage demanding the release of The Soledad Brothers. The Attica uprising.
If you go back decades before that, white people were going to war in the streets over labor disputes...shooting with cops, bombings, everything. Violence just wasn't that much of thing to previous generations. We live in the most peaceful time in history.
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