New cop-killing fashion trend: The 'Assata taught me' protest hoodie [photos]

Yassss! I just bought my Assata Taught Me Tee ✊?✊?✊? Only available for the next 6 days. Go get you one! —-> https://t.co/raFfJGc0Zs

— Antoinette “Asst (To The) Regional Manager” Childs (@TheFancyFriend) April 30, 2015

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It’s all the rage. And we do mean “rage.” Protesters are crazy about a new hoodie emblazoned with the phrase “ASSATA TAUGHT ME.”

"Assata Taught Me" worn by a demonstrator at Justice For Freddie Gray protest. #BaltimoreUprising https://t.co/cMS7zAu2Ri

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Who is Assata? For the uninformed, she is Assata Shakur, a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard. This new fashion trend is a tribute to the cop-killing fugitive godmother of the late Tupac Shakur.

Background on the Left’s sick fetish for Chesimard and her co-conspirators:

The former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army agitator has been a fugitive from justice for nearly 40 years and openly thumbs her nose at her victim’s family while living in Cuba as a political asylee. Congressional Black Caucus members have stubbornly protested extradition efforts, invoking the poisonous race card and deifying Chesimard as a “political prisoner.” Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill glorifies her as a “freedom fighter.”

…rapper Common added an Assata Shakur tribute verse to Jay Z’s recent “Open Letter” rap defending his wedding anniversary trip to Chesimard’s sanctuary of Cuba. “The same way they say she was a shooter, Assata Shakur, they tried to execute her. We should free her like we should (convicted cop-killer) Mumia (Abu Jamal),” Common proclaims.

Chesimard/Shakur is the godmother of the late Tupac Shakur, a gangsta rapper whose genre spawned NWA’s “F**k tha Police,” Ice-T’s “Cop Killer” and The Game’s “911 is a Joke” (“I ought to shoot 51 officers for the 51 times that boy was shot in New York”).

…In 1973, Chesimard shot and killed New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster execution-style during a traffic stop. The gunfight also left her brother-in-law, Black Liberation Army leader Zayd Malik Shakur, dead. At the time, the BLA had been tied to the murders of more than 10 police officers across the country. Chesimard, Zayd Shakur and another member were wanted for questioning in the murder of two of those cops when they were stopped.

Chesimard was convicted and sentenced to life in 1977, but escaped from prison two years later with help from violent left-wing accomplices. One of those thugs, Black Liberation Army killer Tyrone Rison, admitted to participating in a series of armored-car robberies, including a $250,000 heist in the Bronx on June 2, 1981, that left a Brink’s guard dead. Rison also confessed to taking part in the planning of the Rockland County, N.Y., $1.6 million Brink’s robbery by left-wing domestic terrorists on October 20, 1981. Police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O’Grady and Brink’s guard Peter Paige were murdered during the siege.

Chesimard’s brother, Jeral Wayne Williams (a.k.a. Mutulu Shakur), was the convicted ringleader of the group responsible for murdering those law enforcement officers; he also masterminded Chesimard’s escape. His release is set for February 2016.

Celebrated left-wing heroine Kathy Boudin and her then-husband David Gilbert were convicted for their role in the bloody Rockland County robbery. Boudin and Company…are the inspirations for Robert Redford’s new movie love letter to the Weather Underground. Boudin now holds an adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, along with a scholar-in-residence post at New York University, as the New York Post reported…

The adoptive parents of her son, Rhodes scholar and Yale legal fellow Chesa Boudin, are Weather Underground militants-turned-academics Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Susan Rosenberg, a violent “progressive” domestic terrorist who participated in bombings of the United States Capitol Building, three military installations and other sites during the 1980s, was a principal getaway coordinator for Chesimard, Shakur, Boudin, et al. After receiving a pardon from Bill Clinton, Rosenberg taught literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and was offered a teaching position at Hamilton College.