Marquette University removes mural of Assata Shakur on FBI's Most Wanted list | Daily Mail Online

Marquette University is the latest institution of “higher learning” attempting to distance itself from a self-inflicted scandal.

The Catholic campus’s Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) decided to erect a mural honoring one if its apparent heroes: convicted cop killer, escaped convict and wanted terrorist Assata Shakur.

Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the former Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA) and was convicted of the execution-style killing of New Jersey State trooper Werner Foerster in 1973.

In 1979 she escaped from prison and lived as a fugitive before fleeing to Cuba in 1984. In 2005 the FBI classified her as a domestic terrorist and offered a $1 million reward for assistance in her capture.

On May 2, 2013 she became the first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List and New Jersey’s Attorney General added another $1 million to her bounty.