Chicago Teachers Union Praises Fugitive Cop Killer Assata Shakur After She Passes Away
“Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.”
The Chicago Teachers Union is being blasted after paying tribute to convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, a fugitive from justice who passed away on Thursday, September 25th, at the age of 78, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island.
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Chesimard, who was born JoAnne Deborah Byron and was also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur, passed away after living there for years under asylum granted by the Cuban government.
“On September 25, 2025, American citizen Joanne Deborah Byron, ‘Assata Shakur,’ passed away in Havana, Cuba, due to health conditions and advanced age,” the ministry’s statement said.
Despite her conviction and overall violent history, or perhaps because of it – and her escape to the leftist version of Utopia to live out the remainder of her years – Shakur, who was the godmother of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, has long been on the list of cop killers whom far-left radicals, including leftists in academia, have embraced as revolutionary icons and heroes for The Cause.
Case in point, then-Temple Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who had this to say on the Black Liberation Army member’s 71st birthday in 2018:
Marc Lamont Hill, who teaches media studies and urban education at Temple, posted a picture of Assata Shakur on his Instagram feed to mark her 71st birthday, saying that Shakur “wrote the second book that changed (and saved) my life” and “taught me about the value and power of Freedom Dreams.”
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“I pray for her continued safety and protection. I continue to work to demonstrate her innocence,” Hill wrote of the convicted murderer who has been on the F.B.I.’s most-wanted terrorist list since 2013.
“I implore the State to stop prosecuting an unjust and unfair campaign against one of our most treasured Freedom Fighters,” Hill added of the fugitive.
The New York Times also proved the point in their write-up on her death:
Assata Shakur was convicted in the murder of state trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. But the @nytimes obit remembers her now as a "Convicted Revolutionary." pic.twitter.com/I2qINTDfl9
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) September 26, 2025
Relatedly, there was also this:
Rep. Ayanna Pressley pours one out for cop killer Assata Shakur at a Congressional Black Caucus event.
The Left denies that it does political violence. Meanwhile, some of its biggest voices are praising cop-killing terrorists. https://t.co/SUvp4rOpAOhttps://t.co/YJGP8y0d6J https://t.co/TMb1lakosw
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 28, 2025
But back to the Chicago Teachers Union – of which Mayor Brandon Johnson is a member, here’s what they had to say:
Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur.
Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.
Assata refused to be silenced. She taught us that “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. 🕊️
Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.
Assata refused to be silenced. She taught… pic.twitter.com/SsoIg7MU8w
— Chicago Teachers Union (@CTULocal1) September 27, 2025
These people being in positions where they get to teach impressionable young children was not lost on X users, who sounded off in response:
Chicago Teachers Union continues to make a compelling case for school choice. https://t.co/bZ6VK7V7LH
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 27, 2025
Shakur’s legacy is being a career criminal who was convicted for murdering a police officer and then escaped prison. That’s it.
Allowing these people to be in charge of our children’s education is what’s putting America’s future at-risk. pic.twitter.com/FlZoPHZjJa
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 27, 2025
Not a single child was proficient in math in 55 public schools in Chicago. https://t.co/fe0sCbPmON
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 27, 2025
The Chicago Teachers Union honors Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) without mentioning she was convicted of the murder of New Jersey State Police Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. He was 34 years old and left behind a wife and 3-year-old son. Rest in Peace Trooper Foerster. https://t.co/Um8E9ww3Ua pic.twitter.com/Qm2XUub7an
— National Police Association (@NatPoliceAssoc) September 27, 2025
The SPLC has a poem on their website glorifying convicted murderer and domestic terrorist Assata Shakur,
The SPLC gets to decide who is and is not an “extremist” https://t.co/OmNAb724Lk pic.twitter.com/bS2pfoKZWF
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 27, 2025
When people ask, how can we save places like California and Illinois—public sector unions need to reigned in. This is why.
— Roxanne Hoge (@RoxanneHoge) September 27, 2025
Amen.
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Here’s how the Chicago Teachers Union defines murder:
“Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.”
That’s nice. I don’t suppose skin color has anything to do with it.
I don’t think we can live with these monsters anymore
They only get worse in their paranoid delusions
They want to murder us all
Rest in Peace Trooper Foerster. And may God give strength to to your wife and son,
Muslims tell us outright that they will kill us. “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”
“Shakur’s legacy is being a career criminal who was convicted for murdering a police officer and then escaped prison.
Well, to be fair, she does seem to be a pretty exemplar example of today’s urban Black culture.
“Well, to be fair, she does seem to be a pretty exemplar example of today’s urban Black culture.”
And an exact exemplar of the hopes, dreams. and deeply held beliefs of the Chicago Teachers Union.
Subotai Bahadur
The Cultural Marxism Teachers have to be cleared out or we will turn into a Marxist country having all the children brainwashed.
Pathetic.
With teachers this stupid and amoral, it is no wonder that Chicago and its students are in the sh*t hole they are.
“In 1979, armed allies stormed prison, freed her, and smuggled her to Cuba”
Sounds insurrectiony. I wonder what — if anything — happened to them.
The Dhimmi-crats’ veneration, lionization and canonization of innumerable criminal murderers, thugs and terrorists, such as the vile Chesimard, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevera, Yassir Arafat and too many other reprobates to name, says all that one need know about this vile party’s perennial and immutable moral bankruptcy, fecklessness and evil.
Ah yes, the “Mild Dud”, Pressley, paradises a cop killer. Vermin.
Those that can, do.
Those that can’t, teach.
And those who can’t teach, teach teachers.
As a retired PA State Trooper who worked in Philly area, I was acutely aware of that shootout on the NJ Turnpike. This truly sickens me.
Alej: Y’all have plenty of Patriots, Veterans and loyal American Teachers in our Public Schools. Painting a broad brush stroke like your comment does, mischaracterizes a number of teaches. At the same time, the leftist Chicago teachers union is corrupt and raging hate against our American values that honor our LE across this great nation. Bravo-Zulu to our LE Units 🇺🇸