Evelyn Williams: NOKOR[ch400]S[ch400]M W[ch390] ASSATA SHAKUR HO

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Evelyn Williams: NOKOR[ch400]S[ch400]M W[ch390] ASSATA SHAKUR NJ AT[ch400]MMU HO.
Evelyn Williams: NOKOR[ch400]S[ch400]M W[ch390] ASSATA SHAKUR NJ AT[ch400]MMU HO.
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Evelyn Williams: NOKOR[ch400]S[ch400]M W[ch390] ASSATA SHAKUR NJ AT[ch400]MMU HO.

*Evelyn Williams: NOKOR[ch400]S[ch400]M W[ch390] ASSATA SHAKUR NEW JERSEY AT[ch400]MMU HO.*
Evelyn A. Williams na [ch596]twer[ch949][ch949] eyi.
Ay[ch949]wohomum[ch596] da a [ch949]t[ch596] so Aduonu-Num, Afe Mpennu ne Num
www.assatashakur.org/appeal_case_facts_2005.htm

S[ch949]de[ch949] Assata New Jersey at[ch949]mmu mmaranim f[ch949]kufo[ch596] mu baako a mesany[ch949] ne bemmu-pere mmaranimni, m’adwene kyer[ch949] me s[ch949], [ch949]s[ch949] s[ch949] y[ch949]tim as[ch949]m w[ch596] New Jersey nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] (polisini) awiawuo ho so[ch596]. Ne titire no, de[ch949] [ch949]fa nkyer[ch949]kyer[ch949]m(u) nne[ch949]ma, as[ch949]nnie adanses[ch949]m ne adansenne[ch949]ma a [ch949]kyer[ch949] s[ch949] nkontompo afofor[ch596] a New Jersey mantam rep[ch949] akyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch949]y[ch949] “nokor[ch949]” nni mu koraa.

De[ch949] [ch949]s[ch949] s[ch949] [ch949]di y[ch949]n tirim d[ch949]m ne s[ch949] adansefo[ch596] a w[ch596] da-so w[ch596] nkwa mu a w[ch596]ka ho ne (1) Sundiata Acoli, (2) [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Harper (3) Assata ne (4) Obi a [ch596]kaa tease[ch949]nam w[ch596] NJ kwantemp[ch596]n ber[ch949] a ns[ch949]m yi nyinaa k[ch596][ch596] so no. Zayd Malik Shakur a [ch596]w[ch596] tease[ch949]nam mu na [ch596]t[ch596]e[ch949] w[ch596] tuoto mu.

1. Sundiata nnii adanse[ch949] w[ch596] as[ch949]nnie yi mu. Saa nso na wannya as[ch949]m bi ka ansa na atemmuo fitii ase[ch949].

2. Harper adanses[ch949]m ne nney[ch949][ch949] w[ch596] nwomawa a [ch949]didi so[ch596] yi (a w[ch596]gyee too adansenne[ch949]ma mu).

a. Adetwer[ch949] ahodo[ch596] mmi[ch949]nsa a Harper twer[ch949][ch949] no a emus[ch949]m kyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch596]maa Pontiac b[ch596][ch596] gyina, [ch596]te[ch949] Sundiata so s[ch949] [ch596]nk[ch596] tease[ch949]nam (kaa) no akyi nkyer[ch949] [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Foerster ne firikafo[ch596] adansedi-nwoma. Sundiata penee so na as[ch949]m biara mmaa mu. Nwoma yi sankaa s[ch949] [ch596]hw[ch949][ch949] tease[ch949]nam mu s[ch949] [ch596]nhw[ch949] tease[ch949]nam ankasa adansedi-nwoma no p[ch949] na Foerster te[ch949][ch949] m(u) fr[ch949][ch949] no maa akorabo[ch596] akorae so. [ch390]see, ber[ch949] koro no ara na Assata de ne nsa hy[ch949][ch949] b[ch596]t[ch596] k[ch596]k[ch596][ch596] bi mu, yii k[ch596]diawuo (tuo) firii mu too no tuo. [ch390]sankaa s[ch949] [ch596]tasee mmirika mpofirim totoo Assata tuo [ch949]firi s[ch949] [ch596]see saa ber[ch949] no Assata apue afiri tease[ch949]nam mu ada fam(u) atoto no tuo. [ch390]see saa ber[ch949] yi ara na [ch596]too Assata tuo. (w[ch596]gyee yei too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)
b. N’At[ch949]mmu-Agyinatufo[ch596] Nhyiamu K[ch949]se[ch949] adanses[ch949]m mu na [ch596]suae[ch949] s[ch949] n’adetwer[ch949] ahodo[ch596] mmi[ch949]nsa mus[ch949]m nyinaa y[ch949] nokor[ch949] turodoo.

*c. As[ch949]nnie mu nnetwer[ch949] mu no na n’adanses[ch949]m mu nyinaa na [ch596]kaa s[ch949], [ch596]twaa nkontompo w[ch596] ne nnetwer[ch949] mmi[ch949]nsa na [ch596]twaa nkontompo w[ch596] n’At[ch949]mmu-Agyintufo[ch596] Nhyiamu K[ch949]se[ch949] adanses[ch949]m mu nyinaa. [ch390]see, nokor[ch949] ne s[ch949], Foerster ankyer[ch949] no nkorabo[ch596] akorae[ch949]; Foerster ante[ch949] m(u) amfr[ch949] no; wanhu k[ch596]diawuo w[ch596] Assata nsa mu ber[ch949] a [ch596]tenaa tease[ch949]nam mu; Assata anto no tuo afiri tease[ch949]nam mu; wanhu b[ch596]t[ch596] k[ch596]k[ch596][ch596] biara.*

d. Fidie ahy[ch949]mude[ch949] afiri NJ kwantemp[ch596]n kasanomaa so nk[ch596]mm[ch596]die w[ch596] nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] nyinaa ntam(u) a w[ch596]b[ch949]nn atuoto[ch596], K[ch596]t[ch596]nimma da a [ch949]to so mmienu, afe apem ahankron aduonson mmi[ch949]nsa mu w[ch596] h[ch596] a [ch949]kyer[ch949] s[ch949] nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] ntease[ch949]nam mmienu afofor[ch596] a afidiekafo[ch596] baanu ne [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Robert Palenchar ne [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Woerner Foerster na w[ch596]te[ch949] w[ch596]n s[ch949] w[ch596]mmoa Harper ansa na atuoto[ch596] fitii ase[ch949] no. (w[ch596]gyee yei too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)

e. Atetwer[ch949] adetwer[ch949] a obi de ne nsa na [ch949]twer[ch949]e[ch949] a [ch949]fa de[ch949] [ch949]k[ch596][ch596] so nyinaa w[ch596] NJ Kwantemp[ch596]n Hw[ch949]sofo[ch596] Bor[ch596]san (NJ Turnpike Administration Building) ber[ch949] a na Harper hy[ch949]nn saa bor[ch596]san mu b[ch949]y[ch949] d[ch596]n kor[ch596] [ch596]dasum mmienu mu, K[ch596]t[ch596]nimma da a [ch949]to so mmienu afe apem ahankron aduonson mmi[ch949]nsa [ch949]siane s[ch949] [ch596]p[ch949]e s[ch949] [ch596]b[ch596] amanne[ch949] fa atuoto ho ma [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596]-safohene (Sgt.) Chester Baginski a [ch596]y[ch949][ch949] [ch596]twer[ch949]fo[ch596] a [ch596]twer[ch949] nne[ch949]ma nyinaa a [ch949]k[ch596] so w[ch596] [ch596]kwantemp[ch596]n so w[ch596] nwoma bi mu. Harper b[ch596][ch596] kase[ch949] s[ch949] afei na [ch596]firii atuoto bi mu ber[ch949] a [ch596]maa Pontiac bi gyinae[ch949] a Abibifo[ch596] baasa w[ch596] mu. Saa nnipa yi y[ch949] mmanin baanu ne [ch596]baa baako. [ch390]see wapira kakra na s[ch949] saa Pontiac rek[ch596] anafo h[ch596] w[ch596] [ch596]kwantemp[ch596]n so. [ch390]kaa saa tease[ch949]nam adansedi-nkontaabude[ch949] kyer[ch949][ch949] no, nanso wanka s[ch949] [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Foerster duruu h[ch596] no. (w[ch596]gyee yei too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)

f. Fidie ahy[ch949]mude[ch949] afiri mfeefeemu a [ch596]feefeemufo[ch596] adanso-[ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596]-safohene (Detective Sgt. First Class) Richard H. Kelly w[ch596] Hw[ch949]sofo Bor[ch596]san y[ch949][ch949] w[ch596] nn[ch596]n nson apa ho simma aduasa nson an[ch596]pa-tutu saa an[ch596]pa no ahu nea nti ntam(u) ber[ch949] afiri ber[ch949] a Harper hy[ch949]nn Hw[ch949]sofo Bor[ch596]san saa anadwo no k[ch596]pem ber[ch949] a w[ch596]hunuu Foerster funu na [ch949]boroo d[ch596]nhwere[ch949] baako koraa. As[ch949]nka afiri mmara-bamm[ch596]fo[ch596] biara a w[ch596]w[ch596] h[ch596] ber[ch949] a Harper wuraa Hw[ch949]sofo Bor[ch596]san maa [ch949]da adi pefee s[ch949] Harper nkaa as[ch949]m biara faa saa as[ch949]m ho s[ch949] Foerster daa kwan so w[ch596] ne tease[ch949]nam nky[ch949]n b[ch949]boro d[ch596]nhwere[ch949] baako nkyer[ch949][ch949] obiara. Saa ber[ch949] no na [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] O’Rourke a wapue afiri Hw[ch949]sofo[ch596] Bor[ch596]san hunuu ne funu anibiannaso so ber[ch949] a [ch596]sii ne bo s[ch949] [ch596]nk[ch596]y[ch949] nhw[ch949]hw[ch949]m(u) w[ch596] baabi kor[ch596] a atuoto sii[ch949] a [ch949]b[ch949]n h[ch596] p[ch949][ch949] ([ch949]nnuru abasafa ahannu). (w[ch596]gyee yei too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)

3. Assata dii adanse[ch949] s[ch949] Harper maa w[ch596]n gyinae[ch949] nanso [ch596]nni ase[ch949] a [ch949]mu da h[ch596], [ch596]too no tuo ber[ch949] a n’abasa mmienu rekyer[ch949] wim’ s[ch949]de[ch949] [ch596]te[ch949][ch949] no so s[ch949] [ch596]ny[ch949]. Yei akyire no, [ch596]too n’akyi tuo ber[ch949] a Assata rebirekyi ne ho s[ch949] akorabo[ch596] mm[ch596] no. Yei maa wapira k[ch596]si asaman kwan ano na aka kakra na anka wat[ch596] piti. Afei na [ch596]for[ch596][ch596] Pontiac ayi akorabo[ch596] afofor[ch596] akwa. Sundiata kaa tease[ch949]nam b[ch949]y[ch949] akwansini num b[ch596][ch596] gyina. [ch400]h[ch596] ara na [ch596]w[ch596] k[ch596]si ber[ch949] a nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] twetwee no baa fam summ no twenee w[ch596] kwan so kirikra!

4. Tease[ch949]namkafo bi a [ch596]rek[ch596] atifi h[ch596] ber[ch949] a yei nyinaa rek[ch596] so no dii adanse[ch949] w[ch596] as[ch949]nnibea[ch949] no s[ch949] [ch596]hunuu [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] a [ch596]ne Obibini baako redi apereapere w[ch596] tease[ch949]nam fitaa ne nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] tease[ch949]nam ntam(u) a hann afiri n’atifi rehyer[ch949]n sramsramsram ama [ch949]h[ch596] nyinaa y[ch949] hann. [ch390]ntumi nhy[ch949] saa Obibini nso na [ch596]toaa n’as[ch949]m so s[ch949], saa ber[ch949] no na wanhu obi fofor[ch596] w[ch596] kwan so anaa w[ch596] saa beae[ch949] a mm[ch596]tor[ch596]mu k[ch596][ch596] so no. [ch390]de ns[ch949]m a [ch596]hunuu nyinaa maa New Jersey nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] adwumay[ch949]beae[ch949] aso te[ch949] mpofirim

[ch400]no nti na adansedi-nne[ch949]manne[ch949]ma a aka h[ch596] nko ara na w[ch596]tumi de susuu de[ch949] [ch949]k[ch596][ch596] so saa anadwo a y[ch949]reka ho as[ch949]m yi. Adansedi-nne[ch949]manne[ch949]ma na w[ch596]y[ch949][ch949] nhw[ch949]hw[ch949]m(u) faa ho w[ch596] mmarato nhwehw[ch949]mubeae[ch949] w[ch596] Trenton a w[ch596]sany[ch949][ch949] nhwehw[ch949]m(u) bi w[ch596] mmarato nhwehw[ch949]mubeae[ch949] w[ch596] Banneker Kurom (Washington, DC) maa [ch949]daa adi s[ch949]:

1. Mpaapaem(u) w[ch596] atuo ho nsateaa ntintimii ho nyinaa a [ch949]w[ch596] saa beae[ch949] no kyer[ch949][ch949] pefee s[ch949] Assata nsateaa ntintimii biara nni so koraa. (w[ch596]gyee mpaapaem(u) atitires[ch949]m yi nyinaa too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)

2. Anyinam-siniwa ho mpaapaem(u) a w[ch596]y[ch949][ch949] ber[ch949] a w[ch596]de Assata k[ch596][ch596] ayaresabeae[ch949] mu saa anadwo no kyer[ch949][ch949] s[ch949] atuduru nkae[ch949] biara nnii ne nsa so[ch596]. [ch400]yi kyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch949]ny[ch949] [ch596]no ara na [ch596]too tuo bi. (w[ch596]gyee mpaapaem(u) atitires[ch949]m yi nso too adansenne[ch949]ma mu)

3. [ch400]firi korabo[ch596] a Harper too Assata a [ch949]k[ch596][ch596] ne mm[ch596]toam(u) ber[ch949] a n’abasa kyer[ch949][ch949] wim’ twaa ne honam ntam(u) ntini k[ch949]se[ch949] maa no mmubui w[ch596] ne basa nifa mu. [ch400]paapae ne k[ch596]n ase dompe na [ch949]kaa ne bo mu maa ayaresafo[ch596] kae s[ch949], w[ch596]ntumi nyi mfiri mu koraa. Ntini-nkwaad[ch596]m [ch596]yaresafo dii adanse[ch949] faa yei ho w[ch596] asennie mu.

4. [ch390]duy[ch949]fo[ch596] fofor[ch596] bi dii adanse[ch949] s[ch949] “S[ch949] ne basa sii fam a, [ch949]ntumi mma saa s[ch949] korabo[ch596] bi tumi k[ch596] ne k[ch596]n ase[ch949] dompe da. Tubea a [ch949]te saa ntumi mma da.

5. Yiwankura-[ch596]yaresafo[ch596] dii adanse[ch949] s[ch949] “Y[ch949]hw[ch949] nipadua a, s[ch949]nea Awo Chesimard apira saa, [ch949]s[ch949] s[ch949] n’abasa mmienu nyinaa w[ch596] wim’ ansa.” Aban no nnii nimde[ch949]fo[ch596] biara a [ch596]tumi dii adanse[ch949] yi asi.

Mfonini a [ch949]kyer[ch949] korab[ch596] fitibea a [ch949]w[ch596] ne mm[ch596]toa ase na fitibea a [ch949]w[ch596] n’akyi na w[ch596]gyee too adansenne[ch949]ma mu w[ch596] as[ch949]nnie mu.

[ch400]nti, [ch949]firi s[ch949] adansedi ade[ch949] biara nni h[ch596] a [ch949]tumi kyer[ch949] s[ch949] Assata too Harper tuo kumm no, ad[ch949]n nti na w[ch596]buu no f[ch596] w[ch596] ne awudie ho?
Nkyer[ch949]mu binom nie:

De[ch949] [ch949]di kan ne s[ch949], [ch596]tan, af[ch596]bu-kan ne abor[ch596]fo[ch596] nhy[ch949]so nhyehy[ch949]e maa Middlesex mansini at[ch949]mmu-agyinatufo[ch596] aso nyinaa kyeae[ch949] w[ch596] afe apem ahankron aduonson mmi[ch949]nsa mu k[ch596]si s[ch949] w[ch596]sesaa beae[ch949] a w[ch596]redi as[ch949]m no. [ch400]te saa k[ch596]si afe apem ahankron aduonson nson mu. At[ch949]mmu-agyinatufo[ch596] nyinaa gyee to mu s[ch949], s[ch949] [ch596]y[ch949] Obibini a, [ch596]di f[ch596]. Assata mmaranimfo[ch596] b[ch596][ch596] mm[ch596]den mpr[ch949]nsa s[ch949] w[ch596]nsesa baabi a w[ch596]redi as[ch949]m yi ansa na [ch596]t[ch949]mmufo[ch596] Leon Gerofsky maa w[ch596]n kwan. [ch390]see, “[ch400]ntumi mma da s[ch949] y[ch949]b[ch949]tumi anya at[ch949]mmu-agyinatufo[ch596] a [ch949]mu nnipa b[ch949]pene so s[ch949] w[ch596]nnkyea w[ch596]n aso ama nokwat[ch949]n aba na [ch949]ny[ch949] abohuru mu af[ch596]bu-kan.” Afei na y[ch949]tuu as[ch949]nnie k[ch596][ch596] Morris mansini mu. [ch400]h[ch596] na Assata afurufa maa w[ch596]ky[ch949][ch949] n’as[ch949]nnie ne Sundiata as[ch949]nnie mu mmienu.

Afe apem ahankron aduonson nson mu na Assata sanfirii n’as[ch949]nnie ase[ch949] bio w[ch596] Middlesex mansini mu na afei w[ch596]hy[ch949]e s[ch949] at[ch949]mmu-agyinatufo[ch596] b[ch949]bu Assata f[ch596] [ch949]firi s[ch949] [ch949]mu baanum y[ch949][ch949] nhy[ch949]sofo[ch596] anuanom anaas[ch949] ahy[ch949]fo[ch596] bi anuanom.

Mmom, w[ch596]mmuu Assata f[ch596] s[ch949] [ch596]too [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Foerster tuo. W[ch596]buu no f[ch596] s[ch949] [ch596]boaa nea [ch596]kumm no w[ch596] New Jersey “mmoa ne asisiso” mmara mu. New Jersey mmara mu na s[ch949] obi w[ch596] baabi a mmarato rek[ch596] so na s[ch949] w[ch596]hunu s[ch949] [ch596]reboa anaas[ch949] [ch596]reso nea [ch596]reto mmara ne sisi a, w[ch596]b[ch949]tumi abu oniiko no f[ch596] s[ch949]de[ch949] [ch596]no ara ato saa mmara no. [ch390]t[ch949]mmufo[ch596] Theordore Appleby te[ch949] at[ch949]mmu-agyinatufo[ch596] nyinaa s[ch949] w[ch596]tumi susu s[ch949] Assata akum [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Foerster [ch949]firi s[ch949] na [ch596]w[ch596] h[ch596] na [ch596]w[ch596] akode[ch949]. Na [ch949]yi kyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch596]no ara akum [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Foerster. W[ch596]sanbuu no f[ch596] [ch949]firi s[ch949] [ch596]kuraa akode[ch949] bi – na ebi nni h[ch596] a w[ch596]tumi de kyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch596]de ne nsa kaa ho – na bio, w[ch596]kyer[ch949][ch949] s[ch949] [ch596]b[ch596][ch596] mm[ch596]den akum [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596] Harper a wapira ber[ch949] a atuoto rek[ch596] so no.

Afei, mfe[ch949] aduasa mmienu w[ch596] n’af[ch596]buo akyi no, w[ch596]b[ch596][ch596] w[ch596]n ser[ch949] mu dwenee atoro bi a [ch949]fa Foerster wuo:

Adansedi-nne[ch949]ma biara nni h[ch596] a [ch949]gye [ch596]hy[ch949]fo[ch596]-sahene Joseph R. Fuentes ano a [ch596]kae s[ch949] “Akyire no, y[ch949]ahunu s[ch949] obi faa Werner Foerster k[ch596]diawuo afiri ne korabeae[ch949] ber[ch949] a wapira w[ch596] mmosea so na w[ch596]de n’ankasa ne k[ch596]diawuo too no tuo w[ch596] ne tiri mu mpr[ch949]nnu.”

Nanso, nea nti [ch596]kaa saa as[ch949]m da h[ch596] pefee:

1. [ch390]p[ch949] s[ch949] saa mm[ch596]toso b[ch949]tumi ama nnipa pene so s[ch949] [ch596]mfra “[ch596]man mu ahunahunafo[ch596]” mu a Osama bin Ladin nso w[ch596] mu. [ch390]see, “Obiara a anka [ch596]b[ch949]tumi akum mmara-bamm[ch596]fo[ch596] ber[ch949] a [ch596]da fam na [ch949]s[ch949] s[ch949] y[ch949]kan no fra saa ahunahunafo[ch596] mu.” Nanso [ch949]y[ch949] Assata nko ara na w[ch596]abu no f[ch596] w[ch596] [ch596]man mu mmarato a w[ch596]akan no afra ahunahunafo[ch596] mu a w[ch596]rehw[ch949] no s[ch949] [ch596]hunahunafo[ch596] bi. [ch400]yi koraa na [ch949]di “ahunahuna” nkyer[ch949]ase[ch949] asi.

2. [ch400]yi nso ma w[ch596]n kwan s[ch949] w[ch596]nte ne tiri dwaha b[ch949]y[ch949] bor[ch596]fo[ch596] sika [ch596]pepem baako a [ch949]totuafo[ch596] b[ch949]tua. [ch390]see, “Sika a y[ch949]de too dwa yi b[ch949]hy[ch949] nnipa a w[ch596]hy[ch949] akob[ch596]fo[ch596] ak[ch596]t[ch596]k[ch596] nkuran s[ch949] w[ch596]nkyere no.”

New Jersey mantam [ch596]soafo[ch596] nhyiam(u) k[ch949]se[ch949] kasafo[ch596] a w[ch596]fr[ch949] no Albio Sires a [ch596]b[ch596] CANF (Cuban American National Foundation, a [ch949]w[ch596] h[ch596] ma amanfrafo[ch596] firi Cuba) f[ch949]kuo see: “S[ch949] Cuba amanfo[ch596] te ase[ch949] s[ch949] bor[ch596]fosika [ch596]pepem w[ch596] h[ch596] na s[ch949] w[ch596]te Assata mmarato ase[ch949] a, [ch949]b[ch949]tumi aba s[ch949] y[ch949]de no b[ch949]ba [ch596]t[ch949]mmufo[ch596] bi anim...Y[ch949]p[ch949] s[ch949] Cubafo[ch596] b[ch949]hu nokor[ch949]s[ch949]m w[ch596] Joanne Chesimard ho a [ch949]ny[ch949] ad[ch949]f[ch949]d[ch949]f[ch949]s[ch949]m a Castro aban rep[ch949] akyer[ch949]. Y[ch949]p[ch949] s[ch949] nnipa b[ch949]hu s[ch949] [ch596]ny[ch949] obirifo[ch596] na mmom [ch596]y[ch949] [ch596]kokobirifo[ch596] a wato mmara a y[ch949]rep[ch949] no akyere [ch949]firi s[ch949] wakum mmara-bamm[ch596]fo[ch596] adwane.”

Mmusuman Nt[ch949]nkyeae (US Injustice Department) nam nkontompo yi s[ch949] Assata too Foerster tiri tuo ber[ch949] a [ch596]reda fam kumm no aboadi kwan so so [ch949]firi s[ch949] w[ch596]mp[ch949] s[ch949] nnipa b[ch949]tumi ahunu Assata mm[ch596]b[ch596] na w[ch596]mp[ch949] s[ch949] nnipa b[ch949]gyina n’akyi s[ch949]de[ch949] y[ch949]si regyina n’akyi w[ch596] Mmusuman ne Cubaman mu. W[ch596]to no din “nhy[ch949]sofokumfo[ch596]” [ch949]firi s[ch949] w[ch596]n ani da so s[ch949] nnipa wer[ch949] b[ch949]firi de[ch949] [ch949]k[ch596][ch596] so w[ch596] NJ kwantemp[ch596]n so. W[ch596]n ani da so nso s[ch949] nnipa wer[ch949] b[ch949]firi de[ch949] [ch949]k[ch596][ch596] so ansa na saa ber[ch949] no, ber[ch949] a aban rep[ch949] no akum no nkantom s[ch949] w[ch596]nim s[ch949] [ch596]di bem.

Nkontompo a w[ch596]retwa yi nyinaa s[ch949] w[ch596]b[ch949]tumi akyer[ch949] s[ch949] [ch596]hunahunafo[ch596] ad[ch596] Cuba man mu nkamfua, y[ch949]nim s[ch949] Mmusuman ama atenka ahunahunafo[ch596] baanu a w[ch596]dii f[ch596] w[ch596] as[ch949]nnibeae[ch949] mu akwaaba.

Mmusuman aban apo s[ch949] w[ch596]rentu [ch596]hunahunafo[ch596] p[ch596]tee Luis Posada Carriles (a y[ch949]ab[ch596] no kwaadu s[ch949] wakum kwasafo[ch596] aduonson nson w[ch596] afe apem ahankron aduonson nsia mu. [ch390]no nso na [ch596]dii f[ch596] w[ch596] ahunahunas[ch949]m afofor[ch596] a Mprako [ch400]po-faka (Bay of Pigs) fra mu). Mmusuman aban nso apo s[ch949] w[ch596]rentu Posada adamfo a [ch596]de Orlando Bosch. [ch390]no nso na [ch596]dan CANF, Jeb Bush ne n’agya, ne Mmusuman mmaranimni Gonzalez dwanee firii Venezuela baa Miami afe apem ahankron aduonw[ch596]twe nson mu. [ch390]no ara na [ch596]maa w[ch596]n kwan s[ch949] w[ch596]mm[ch596] dawuru w[ch596] Assata tirisika ho. [ch390]no nso na [ch596]maa w[ch596]gor[ch596][ch596] nnipa t[ch596]per[ch949] w[ch596] Abu Ghreb mu. Anaas[ch949] saa mpeneso baa ber[ch949] a Michael Chertoff dii [ch390]twer[ch949]fo[ch596] w[ch596] [ch390]man Bamm[ch596] Asoae[ch949] dibea akyi.

Nokor[ch949]s[ch949]m bi w[ch596] h[ch596]. Momma y[ch949]n wer[ch949] mfiri w[ch596]n. – Evelyn A. Williams.

Y[ch400]PA MO KY[ch400]W, MOMMA YEI NTAHYE YIE
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STATEMENT OF FACTS IN THE NEW JERSEY TRIAL OF ASSATA SHAKUR:
Written by Evelyn A. Williams, dated June 25, 20005

As a member of Assata’s New Jersey trial legal defense team, and her appeal lawyer, I think a correct statement of the circumstances of New Jersey Trooper Werner Foerster’s death as established by exhibits, trial testimony and forensic evidence and that conclusively repudiate the revisionist lies now being advanced by the State of New Jersey as “fact”, need to be repeated.

It is be remember that the only surviving eyewitnesses to the NJ Turnpike shoot-out were (1) Sundiata Acoli, (2) Trooper Harper, (3) Assata and (4) the driver of a car traveling along the NJ Turnpike at the time of the incident. Zayd Malik Shakur, a passenger, was killed during the shootout.

1. Sundiata did not testify at trial, nor did he make any pre-trial statements.

2. Harper’s testimony and actions are contained in the following documents (admitted into evidence)

a. The three official investigative reports prepared by Harper, in which he wrote that after he stopped the Pontiac, he ordered Sundiata to the back of the car to show his driver’s license to Trooper Foerster who had arrived at the scene. That Sundiata complied without incident. That as he looked into the inside door of the Pontiac to check the registration, Foerster yelled at him and held up an ammunition clip. He stated that at the same time Assata reached into a red pocketbook, removed a gun from it and fired at him. That he immediately ran to the rear of his car and fired at Assata, who had emerged from the car, and was firing at him from a prostrate position alongside of the Pontiac. And it was at this point that he shot her. (admitted into evidence)

b. His Grand Jury testimony where he swore under oath to the truth of the statements he had made in his 3 official reports. (admitted into evidence)

c. Trial transcripts of his testimony at both Sundiata’s and Assata’s trials where he admitted, under cross-examination, that he had lied in all three of his official reports and in his Grand Jury testimony. That the truth was that Foerster had never shown him an ammunition clip; that Foerster had not yelled to him; that he had not seen a gun in Assata’s hand while she was seated in the car; that Assata did not shoot him from the car; and that he had not seen a red pocketbook.

d. Audio tapes of the official recorded NJ Turnpike radio communications between all NJ State Trooper cars traveling the Turnpike near the scene of the shoot-out, dated May 2, 1973, which revealed that two additional turnpike patrol cars, those driven by Trooper Robert Palenchar and Trooper Woerner Foerster, had been ordered to aid Harper at the stop prior to the shoot-out. (admitted into evidence)

e. The verbatim, hand-written record of what transpired inside the NJ Turnpike Administration Building when Harper entered it at or about 1AM on May 2, 1973, to report the shoot-out to Sergeant Chester Baginski who was in charge of maintaining the official record of turnpike occurrences on that (refereed to as the Station Bible). Harper reported that he had just been involved in a shoot-out after he had stopped a Pontiac containing three Black people, two men and a woman, that he had been wounded, and that the Pontiac was proceeding South on the turnpike. He gave the license plate number, but did not mention that Trooper Foerster had arrived at the scene. (admitted into evidence)

f. Audio tapes of the investigation conducted by Detective Sgt. First Class Richard H. Kelly in the Administration Building at 7:37AM that morning to determine why over an hour elapsed from the time Harper entered the Administration Building that night and the discovery of Foerster’s body. Statements by each of the troopers present when Harper came into the Administration Building revealed that Harper had not reported Foerster’s presence at the scene and that no one was aware of the fact that Foerster lay on the road beside his car in front of the Administration building for over an hour, when his body was accidentally discovered by Trooper O’Rourke who had left the Administration building to investigate the scene of the shoot-out, less than 200 yards away. (admitted into evidence)

3. Assata testified that Harper stopped the car without any known reason, shot her with her arms raised at his demand, and then shot her in the back as she was turning to avoid his bullets. Almost mortally wounded, and semi-conscious, she climbed into the backseat of the Pontiac to avoid further bullets. Sundiata drove the car five miles down the road and parked it, where she remained until State Troopers dragged her onto the road.

4. A driver traveling north along the turnpike at the time of the incident testified at trial that he had seen a State Trooper struggling with a Black man between a parked white vehicle and a State Trooper car whose overhead revolving lights lit up the area. He was unable to identify the Black man, and further stated that he saw no one else on the road or at the scene. He immediately reported what he had seen to New Jersey Police Headquarters.

It therefore remained only forensic evidence to help determine the facts of that night as much as they could be determined. The forensic evidence examined by both the New Jersey crime laboratory in Trenton, New Jersey and FBI crime laboratories in Washington, D.C. Established the following:

1. The finger print analyses of every gun and every piece of ammunition found at the scene showed there were no fingerprints of Assata found on any of them. (The official analyses admitted into evidence)

2. Neutron Activation Analysis taken immediately after Assata was taken to the hospital that night showed there was no gun power residue on her hands. Effectively refuting the possibility that she had fired a gun. (The official analyses were admitted into evidence)

3. As a result of the bullet Harper shot under her armpit, while her arms were raised in, her median nerve was severed, immediately paralyzing her entire right arm, shattering her clavicle, and lodging in her chest so close to her heart that an operation to remove it was not feasible. A neurologist testified to that fact at the trial.

4. A pathologist testified that “There is no conceivable way that the bullet could have traveled over to the clavicle if her arm was down. That trajectory is impossible.”

5. A surgeon testified that “it was anatomically necessary that both arms be in the air for Ms. Chesimard to have received the wounds she did.”

The state offered no expert witnesses to refute this medical testimony.

6. Photographs depicting the gunshot entry wound under her armpit and the entry would of the bullet Harper shot into her back were admitted into evidence during the trial.

Therefore, since no evidence existed that proved Assata fired the bullet that killed Trooper Foerster, why was she found guilty of his murder? There are several explanations:

The first is that the climate of hatred, prejudice and racism that had so contaminated the Middlesex County jury pool in 1973 that a change of venue was ordered, continued to exist in 1977. The unanimous opinion of the 1973 jury pool was “If she’s Black, she’s guilty.” After three defense motions for change of venue, Judge Leon Gerofsky granted the motion, stating, “It was almost impossible to obtain a jury here comprised of people willing to accept the responsibility of impartiality so that defendants will be protected from transitory passion and prejudice.” The trial was then moved to Morris County where Assata’s trial was severed from Sundiata’s because of her pregnancy.

In 1977 Assata began trial for the second time in this same Middlesex County, and this time jury nullification was insured: The jurors chosen to determine Assata’s guilt or innocence consisted of five jurors who were either relatives or close personal friends of state troopers or of state law enforcement officers.

However, Assata was not convicted of firing the shot that killed Trooper Foerster. She was convicted as an accomplice to his murder under New Jersey’s “aiding and abetting” statute. Under New Jersey law, if a person’s presence at the scene of a crime can be construed as “aiding and abetting” the crime, that person can be convicted of the substantive crime itself. Judge Theodore Appleby charged the jury that they were permitted to speculate that Assata’s “mere presence” at a scene of violence, with weapons in the vehicle, was sufficient to sustain a conviction of the murder of Trooper Foerster. She was also convicted of possession of weapons – none of which could be identified as having been handled by her and of the attempted murder of Trooper Harper, who had sustained a flesh wound at the time of the shootout.

Now, 32 years after her conviction, a new, fabricated version of Foerster’s death has emerged:

There is absolutely no evidence to support statements made by Col. Joseph R. Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, who said that “It was later determined that Werner Foerster’s service weapon was ripped from his holster as he lay wounded on the pavement, and he was executed with two shots to the head from his own service weapon.”

But his motivation for making those statements is clear:

1. To justify Assata being placed on the domestic terror watch list along with Osama bin Ladin. He said, “Anyone with a mindset that would execute a police officer once they were on the ground is dangerous enough to be considered a domestic terrorism threat.” But Assata is the only person convicted of a single domestic crime who has been classified a terrorist and put on the terrorism watch list, thereby nullifying the very definition of “terrorism”

2. To justify the $1 million dollar bounty to be paid from tax payers money. He said, “The reward money should make Chesimard a much more attractive quarry for professional bounty hunters.”

New Jersey State Assembly Speaker, Albio Sires, a longtime member of CANF (Cuban American National Foundation, representing Cuban exiles), said: “If Cuba’s citizenry could be informed of the $1 million bounty and the real story of Chesimard’s crimes, there is an increased likelihood of her being brought to Justice…. We want the Cuban people to know the real story about Joanne Chesimard and not the deceptive representation advanced by the Castro regime. We want people to realize that she is not a hero and she is really a violent criminal who is wanted for killing a State Trooper and escaping justice.”

By falsely asserting that Assata shot Foerster in the head while he lay helplessly on the ground, killing him “execution style”, the US Justice Department hopes to strip Assata of any of the sympathy and political support she now receives in the United States and from the citizens of Cuba. By labeling her a cold-blooded cop killer, the hope is that the real circumstances of the NJ Turnpike as well as all the years prior to that event during which time Assata was relentlessly hunted with the stated purpose of killing her on sight for having committed crimes of which the government knew she was innocent, will be forgotten.

But even as official lies are now being manufactured to convert Assata into a terrorist, so that Cuba can be accused of “harboring a terrorist” and to justify kidnapping her, there are, in fact, two well-known and admitted, convicted terrorists who are now being given safe harbor in the United States.

The US government has refused to extradite admitted terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, (charged with the shoot down of a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 civilians and convicted of other terrorist acts including the Bay of Pigs). The US government has also refused to extradite Posada’s convicted fellow terrorist, Orlando Bosch, who escaped from Venezuela and came to Miami in 1987 with the assistance of the CANF, Jeb Bush and his father, the then US Attorney, Gonzalez, who personally approved the bounty, also approved prisoner torture at Abu Ghreb. Or that the approval came after New Jersey resident, Michael Chertoff, was named Secretary of the Department of Homeland Defense.

There are the facts. Let us not forget them.

- Evelyn A. Williams