AP Images Assata Shakur in 1977Last week, the FBI learned it could drop Assata Shakur — real name, Joanne Chesimard — from its Most Wanted Terrorists List. ⁨Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson PRAISES cop killer Assata Shakur as “an important person in the black liberation movement." “The Chicago Teachers Union honors Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) without mentioning she was convicted of the murder of New Jersey State Police Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973,” the NPA wrote on X. The Chicago Teachers Union honors Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) without mentioning she was convicted of the murder of New Jersey State Police Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. She was convicted of the murder New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who was executed in cold blood.