Assata Olugbala Shakur was beaten shot and tortured by Police after the shootout on the Jersey Turnpike. Shakur was in the hospital for most of her time there being ridiculed and spat upon by Police Officers who are supposed to protect her from outside forces. Shakur was not allowed to speak to any family or have any visitors and was being forced to confess her crimes of murder, attempted murder, bank robbery, and kidnapping. Shakur took a vow of silence and spoke no words. Shakur was then tried in her hospital bed where her attorney barely prepped her for the hearing. The judge and a few officers came into her room, charged her and sentenced her on her hospital bed. Shakur was part of the Black Panther Party, a Party that was put on the FBI’s most wanted list for being a terrorist group according to them. Because of this, she was treated less than human during her time of hurt in that hospital. , Black Panther Party, original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. …show more content…
Huey Percy Newton was an African- American political activist and revolutionary who pursued an education earning a Ph.D. in Social Philosophy. Best known for founding Left-wing militant Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966. The organization made headlines with controversial rhetoric and militaristic style of revolution.
Bobby Seale (1936-) Young African-American radical who built a revolution opposite of the nonviolent civil rights movement to preach the doctrine of militant black empowerment. Seale was a quiet member of the Party working on social services for low-income black families and