Will the its support for a movement featuring a cop-killer on FBI’s Most Wanted List? #ncpol“ Two cops were just targeted for assassination in LA.

“The movement endorsed by embraces cop-killing terrorist Assata Shakur. Like Ballard, Berger also called on the NCAE to withdraw its support from the coalition. An unknown gunman critically wounded the deputies in an ambush-style attack while they sat in a patrol car. The NCAE should withdraw its support, apologize to parents and teachers, and renounce violent attacks on police.”īallard is referring to the shooting of two deputies in Los Angeles over the weekend. “Police officers in Los Angeles were just targeted for assassination, and this movement honors a cop-killer.

“It’s despicable that the far-left NCAE would encourage North Carolina teachers to pledge their support for a movement that openly embraces a cop-killing terrorist on the FBI’s most wanted list,” Ballard said. Deanna Ballard, a Republican from Watauga County, jumped into the fray. “The organization’s motto, written by the cop-killer terrorist, comes from a larger work in which Shakur also calls cops “pigs” and says murdered officers died “in the so-called line of duty,” Berger said on his website, Senator Berger Press Shop.

Shakur escaped prison and now lives in Cuba where she was granted political asylum in the early 1980s. He contends that support for the coalition creates a “credibility crisis” for NCAE because the coalition’s motto is written by Assata Shakur, the former Black Liberation Army member convicted of being an accomplice in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. Association of Educators’ (NCAE) leadership for its support of Black Lives Matter at School, a national coalition of teachers that promotes racial justice in education.īerger’s criticism of the “far-left” NCAE came days after its president, Tamika Kelly Walker, posted a tweet urging educators to sign a petition pledging to participate in the coalition’s “Black Lives Matter at School’s Year of Purpose” by initiating social justice and political activities in classrooms. Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), continued his attacks on state educators Monday, this time targeting the N.C.

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