Assata Shakur's complex legacy: Convicted of killing a cop, and a folk hero to the Black power movement

Five decades after a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike left a state trooper and a radical Black activist dead, the case remains a flashpoint. Some people know the surviving woman at the center of the story as Joanne Chesimard, a cop killer on the lam. But to others, she’s Assata Shakur, a folk hero of the civil rights movement.