Women’s March Gets Ripped on Twitter for Celebrating Cop Killer’s Birthday
Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur! Today’s #SignOfResistance, in Assata’s honor, is by @Meloniousfunk. pic.twitter.com/V66au1dRnl
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 16, 2017
On Sunday, the Women’s March Twitter account celebrated the birthday of Assata Shakur, aka convicted cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, who was facing a life sentence before fleeing to Cuba.
Shakur was a left-wing activist of the Black Liberation Army and in 1973 was involved in a shootout, which led to the death of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She was convicted for murder in 1977 but escaped prison in 1979. She has had political asylum in Cuba since arriving in 1984. She is currently on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
In the tweet, the Women’s March called the 70-year-old domestic terrorist a “revolutionary.”
Conservative Twitter was not celebrating.
“Celebrate the Revolution! Kill a cop today!” – the apparent message of @womensmarch in this tweet. pic.twitter.com/gXhFJKTc6x
— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) July 17, 2017
— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) July 17, 2017
This is who they are. This is the Resistance. They resist morals, values, Americanism, Capitalism, hygiene, employment.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) July 17, 2017
You embrace a murderer.
You are scum.— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 17, 2017
literally honouring a killer who is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. Vomit. https://t.co/K02luGpbRo
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 17, 2017
No words… pic.twitter.com/LHIGRaW5sz
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) July 17, 2017
Remember when Women’s March was an approachable centrist vehicle for #TheResistance? Now celebrating a cop killer living in exile in Cuba. https://t.co/whgyTfEJOF
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 17, 2017
“Women’s March” isn’t about women at all. Instead its about promoting rabid marxism, aka today’s leftism https://t.co/ITCA9zNupc
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 17, 2017
Hard to believe this is the SECOND convicted terrorist the Women’s March has embraced https://t.co/6xvIq6L6HX
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) July 17, 2017
This is an unbelievable tweet. This woman is a convicted cop-killer. Is that what the women’s march honors? https://t.co/ahAliwWKsC
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 17, 2017
as long as the left celebrates cop killers, the right will never lose. https://t.co/AlHxXdnOhU
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 17, 2017
The Women’s March doubled-down in their solidarity for Shakur, making this 20-tweet statement on Monday, calling her a “civil rights leader” whose “resistance tactics” were “different” from theirs.
Women’s March is a nonviolent movement. We have never and will never use violence to achieve our goals. (1/20)
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
The far right is threatened by our movement, and by our solidarity with other movements. (2/20)
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
Our power—your power—scares the far right. They continue to try to divide us. Today’s attacks on #AssataShakur are the latest example (3/20)
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur is a civil rights leader who used her leadership position to challenge sexism within the Black Liberation Movement. (5/20)
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur‘s resistance tactics were different from ours. That does not mean that we do not respect her anti-sexism work. (6/20)
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur took a militant approach. We do not. That does not mean we don't respect and appreciate her anti-racism work. (7/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We see the decision to place Assata in a men's prison as state-sponsored sexual assault—using rape as legal punishment for a crime. (16/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We say all this not to say that #AssataShakur has never committed a crime, and not to endorse all of her actions. (19/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We say this to demonstrate the ongoing history of government & right-wing attempts to criminalize and discredit political activists. (20/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
This lead to even more backlash:
You are garbage, and you just tweeted happy birthday to a terrorist cop-killer. https://t.co/6YFH5rYfdO
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 17, 2017
Nonviolent? Here is Madonna saying she wants to blow up the white house at the Women’s March. pic.twitter.com/pwLh1ndzlS
— Tommy (@tciccotta) July 17, 2017
Heads up @womensmarch, only 92 more shopping days until Squeaky Fromme’s birthday.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) July 18, 2017
Assata Shakur kills a cop.
Escapes prison.
Flees to communist Cuba.@WomensMarch defends her.All you know to know about the Women’s March.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) July 17, 2017
