Clueless FBI Director Kash Patel Bashes Assata Shakur

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The second it was confirmed that revolutionary Black icon Assata Shakur handed away, we knew or ought to have identified that mainstream media shops had been going to spotlight the truth that she was a needed fugitive accused and convicted of killing a cop, as a result of white America’s interpretation of historical past has at all times been prioritized within the mainstream.

And booooooy, does white America have little lapdog in FBI Director Kash Patel.

On Sunday, Patel apparently acquired so fed up (see what I did there?) with folks mourning the dying and celebrating the lifetime of Shakur as a revolutionary who died free in Cuba after escaping a jail sentence many consider was unjust, that he took to X to remind America she was convicted of killing a police officer, against the law she at all times maintained her innocence of.

“Joanne Chesimard didn’t ‘combat for justice,’” Patel tweeted, referencing Shakur’s delivery title. “She murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in chilly blood, then fled to Cuba to flee accountability. The FBI by no means stopped calling her what she was: a terrorist. Mourning her is spitting on the badge and the blood of each cop who gave their life in service.”

Patel, in fact, included a screenshot of Shakur’s FBI Most Wished poster, as if people who find themselves celebrating Assata wouldn’t already concentrate on her story. What Patel needs — I imply, in addition to a head pat from his MAGA, white nationalist overseers — is for the federal government’s model of Shakur’s story to be divorced from historic context and any information that get in the best way of the FBI’s narrative.

So, Patel didn’t embody something concerning the all-white jury that convicted her, or that she was convicted with out bodily proof, or {that a} surgeon who examined her stated it was “anatomically not possible” that she shot Foerster in the best way that was reported, and that it was “anatomically obligatory” for her arms to have been raised for her to obtain the bullet wounds she did within the shootout. Patel additionally didn’t hassle mentioning the in depth historical past of legislation enforcement’s efforts to sabotage the civil rights and Black liberation actions, together with the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations, and the outright malicious killing of Black Panther Get together Chairman Fred Hampton.

However maybe Patel merely didn’t know any of that historical past. Perhaps he simply ran a fast Google search of Assata and went with regardless of the AI Overview stated. In spite of everything, how may one anticipate Patel — who by no means labored a day within the FBI till President Donald Trump made him the bureau’s director — to know in any nice element a historical past that occurred greater than 5 many years in the past, when he couldn’t even recall the story of white supremacist mass shooter Dylann Roof, who killed 9 Black folks in a church only one decade in the past?

Patel is a part of a MAGA regime that has made it a prime precedence to sanitize American historical past and America’s historic mistreatment of Black folks for white appeasement — in fact, he’s going to tote the white supremacist line in the case of Assata Shakur. In his tweet, he’s actually preaching to his personal choir whereas pretending to enlighten us who’ve already determined about her as a result of we all know who she was, and, extra to the purpose, what America was and nonetheless demonstrably is.