It was these accusations that intensified the supposed East/West Coast rivalry within hip hop. He would also accuse former rap partner Notorious B.I.G. He would eventually be sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
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Tupac was in New York filming a video as well as awaiting the fate of his trial for the sexual assault charges he was indicted for the year before. Left for dead, Tupac shocked the world by not only surviving, but checking out the hospital just days after the incident. Shakur, who has been diagnosed with life-threatening bone cancer while suffering other health problems, was scheduled for mandatory release in February 2016, but was held and is currently scheduled for mandatory release on May 26, 2026, according to his website.Davey D: On November 30th, 1994, while waiting in the lobby of a Times Square studio, Tupac became the victim of an attempted robbery. His attorney, at his trial in the 1980s, argued there was no proof that his client took part in the robberies or helped Assata escape prison. At his trial, an admitted accomplice, according to the Daily Mail, testified that armed members of his revolutionary group visited the prison, captured two guards, and then drove Assata out in a prison van while Shakur was protecting the escape route.
In four years, he was arrested in Los Angeles by the FBI, tried in 1987 and convicted on May 11, 1988.Īmong his reasons for being in prison is he being convicted of aiding fellow revolutionary and now self-exiled aunt of Tupac, Assata, escape from prison. The radical activist had, six years prior to the robbery, married Tupac’s mother, but they divorced in 1982. Shakur, who had allegedly planned the robbery, was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list while he was on the run. The group also allegedly killed two Nyack police officers, Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown, the latter being the first black member of the Nyack, New York, police department. The group landed in trouble in 1981 when it robbed a Brink’s armored car at a mall in New York, killing a Brink’s guard, Peter Paige, and seriously wounding another Brinks guard, Joseph Trombino, officials said. Becoming certified and licensed to practice acupuncture in California in 1976, Shakur went on to help create the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture. Shakur was convicted some thirty years ago were committed in the context of a movement seeking equal opportunities for black people who, it is widely conceded, were suffering catastrophically from disenfranchisement, segregation, poverty, and exclusion from many of the fundamental necessities that make life worth living,” his family and friends say on his website.īorn Jeral Wayne Williams in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 8, 1950, Shakur was politically active in his teens, joining the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a revolutionary black nationalist group, and then later the black separatist movement, the Republic of New Afrika.īy 1970, Shakur was working with the Lincoln Detox program, helping treat addicts using acupuncture vs the FDA approved drug methadone, according to reports. Shakur, well known for his naturopathic remedies for heroin addicts, has throughout his incarceration amassed a large group of supporters, many of whom believe he is a political prisoner. A handful of old telephone rule violations over 30 years do not show Plaintiff frequently violated prison rules or is likely to re-offend If released on parole,” said the lawsuit.
“The commission has failed to adopt or apply any known standards on the meaning of frequent rule violations. In 2018, he argued that his First Amendment rights were being ignored. Assata is currently in political asylum in Cuba and she has been there for over three decades.īefore Shakur’s court filing in 2018, he went up for a parole hearing in 2016 but was denied “because of a single positive drug test that he failed almost thirty years prior to the parole hearing,” according to The Source. He was also convicted of aiding and abetting the escape of Tupac’s aunt and activist Assata Shakur from a New Jersey State Prison after she was sentenced to life for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973.
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