Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950) is an American black Revolutionary. He was a proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt.Shakur is best known for his conviction on racketeering charges following the 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) and the infamous $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in which a guard and two police officers were killed. It was later found that an illegal project by the FBI, COINTELPRO, aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and neutralizing what they considered domestic political organizations, had targeted Mutulu as well as many of his comrades. He is currently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Victorville. He was stepfather to the late rap artist Tupac Shakur. Wikipedia
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