Chicago Teachers Union celebrates a cop killer

[Derec]

Joanne Chesimard (alias "Assata Shakur"), a BLA terrorist who was involved in the fatal ambush of police officers in 1973, finally kicked the bucket. It would have been better had she died in prison where she belonged, and not hiding out in Cuba, but it is what it is.

But what followed is far less good. Chicago Teachers Union has issued a message of support for her.
Chicago Teachers Union honors activist Assata Shakur, convicted murderer after death, drawing backlash

Here is the CTU tweet:


These are the people tasked with educating out youth. This kind of thing should be unacceptable - schools should be places of education, not indoctrination.
And this is also an example of how US labor unions are often run by left-wing extremists.

Nina Turner and Democratic Socialists of America also issued tweets celebrating this murderer.

 

[Bronzeage]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

 

[laughing dog]

Once you read in the OP "it would have been better had she died in prison...", you know all there is to know about the OP.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I wonder if the Chicago Teachers Union would have pardoned her if they had that power.

It seems that by your standards it is the right wing extremists wirh more power in this country.

 

[patchy]

Price of Viagra go up because of the tariffs, Derec?
FFS, man

 

[Politesse]

"Schools should be places of education, not indoctrination," rants area man outraged that teachers are allowed to disagree with his politics.

 

[Derec]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

 

[Toni]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

 

[TSwizzle]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

 

[laughing dog]

Officer Brian Sicknick was assaulted by rioters on Jan 6. He was taken to hospital and died that night after his 2nd stroke.

 

[Bronzeage]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Are you serious? I know one person who does not think those who assaulted cops, (which resulted in a higher than average short term death rate for law enforcement) deserve to be in prison. You may have heard of him. He's on Fox News all the time.

"On May 2, 1973, Shakur participated in a shoot-out on the New Jersey Turnpike that resulted in the death of one state trooper and the wounding of another. Assata Shakur was taken into custody. She conceived a child in prison, and the consideration of her pregnancy resulted in a mistrial. Meanwhile, the City of New York piled charge after charge on Shakur, using weak evidence and the rationale that the BLA had to be stopped. But juries recognized the prosecution’s fragile cases. They dismissed or acquitted, over and over, and as Shakur waited to be tried on the murder and assault charges from the Turnpike shooting, civil rights groups began to see her as a symbol for courage in the face of oppression."

It appears she was just involved in a disturbance that resulted in the death of a police officer, which as we heave seen is no longer a crime.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

This tells everyone that you have no real awareness of what happened that day. Several police personnel died as a result of the event.
But you don't care about that. To say "a female protester was killed by a cop" misrepresents what actually happened - she was attempting to illegally enter the building for the purpose of enabling more of the insurrectionists to enter. She was a former member of the military, so she was violating her oath. Her death was the result of her own actions. She was not a "protester".

 

[TSwizzle]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

{snip} Several police personnel died as a result of the event.{snip}

Several? How many exactly? Three, four, ten? What was the names of these brave officers?

 

[ZiprHead]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Are you serious? I know one person who does not think those who assaulted cops, (which resulted in a higher than average short term death rate for law enforcement) deserve to be in prison. You may have heard of him. He's on Fox News all the time.

"On May 2, 1973, Shakur participated in a shoot-out on the New Jersey Turnpike that resulted in the death of one state trooper and the wounding of another. Assata Shakur was taken into custody. She conceived a child in prison, and the consideration of her pregnancy resulted in a mistrial. Meanwhile, the City of New York piled charge after charge on Shakur, using weak evidence and the rationale that the BLA had to be stopped. But juries recognized the prosecution’s fragile cases. They dismissed or acquitted, over and over, and as Shakur waited to be tried on the murder and assault charges from the Turnpike shooting, civil rights groups began to see her as a symbol for courage in the face of oppression."

It appears she was just involved in a disturbance that resulted in the death of a police officer, which as we heave seen is no longer a crime.

I addition there's this from her Wiki:

A key element of Shakur's defense was medical testimony meant to demonstrate that she was shot with her hands up and that she would have been subsequently unable to fire a weapon. A neurologist testified that the median nerve in Shakur's right arm was severed by the second bullet, making her unable to pull a trigger. Neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Turner Davidson, Associate Professor of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, testified that the wounds in her upper arms, armpit and chest, and severed median nerve that instantly paralyzed her right arm, would only have been caused if both arms were raised, and that to sustain such injuries while crouching and firing a weapon (as described in Trooper Harper's testimony) "would be anatomically impossible".

Davidson based his testimony on an August 4, 1976, examination of Shakur and on X-rays taken immediately after the shootout at Middlesex General Hospital. Prosecutor Barone questioned whether Davidson was qualified to make such a judgment 39 months after the injury; Barone proceeded to suggest (while a female Sheriff's attendant acted out his suggestion) that Shakur was struck in the right arm and collar bone and "then spun around by the impact of the bullet so an immediate second shot entered the fleshy part of her upper left arm" to which Davidson replied, "Impossible."

Dr. David Spain, a pathologist from Brookdale Community College, testified that her bullet scars as well as X-rays supported her claim that her arms were raised, and that there was "no conceivable way" the first bullet could have hit Shakur's clavicle if her arm was down.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

{snip} Several police personnel died as a result of the event.{snip}

Attach files
Several? How many exactly? Three, four, ten? What was the names of these brave officers?

Shortly after the events of Jan6 I did some research into who was killed, and that is how I know that there were several police personnel who died as a result of that event. So I leave it to you as an exercise for the student to repeat this research for yourself.
I notice that you avoided the other points I raised. Perhaps silence means assent?

 

[TSwizzle]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

{snip} Several police personnel died as a result of the event.{snip}

Attach files
Several? How many exactly? Three, four, ten? What was the names of these brave officers?

Shortly after the events of Jan6 I did some research into who was killed, and that is how I know that there were several police personnel who died as a result of that event. {snip}

lol, you can’t name them.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

That's quite a whataboutism. Especially since nobody here thinks that those who assaulted (not killed) cops on 1/6 do not deserve to be in prison.

But I will take note that you are incapable of discussing left-wing radicalism without derailing with "but what about January 6th?"

Officers died as a result of their injuries.

Really? How many and can you name them?

I was aware of one death, a female protester killed by a cop.

{snip} Several police personnel died as a result of the event.{snip}

Attach files
Several? How many exactly? Three, four, ten? What was the names of these brave officers?

Shortly after the events of Jan6 I did some research into who was killed, and that is how I know that there were several police personnel who died as a result of that event. {snip}

lol, you can’t name them.

As usual, you are not willing to do any fact checking yourself. The police officers were Brian Sicknick, Jeffrey Smith, Howard Liebengood, Gunther Hashida, and Kyle DeFreytag. Also, as well as AB, three other Trump supporters also died.

 

[TSwizzle]

As usual, you are not willing to do any fact checking yourself. The police officers were Brian Sicknick,

Stroke

Jeffrey Smith

Suicide

Howard Liebengood,

Suicide

Gunther Hashida,

Suicide

and Kyle DeFreytag.

Suicide

That you try to use people’s tragic deaths for your silly argument is shameful.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

My argument is solid. I said that their deaths were a result of J6. I never said that they occurred at the event itself.