Original sentence: He was sentenced to life in prison in 1974, for killing a New Jersey state trooper.Sundiata Acoli (born in 1939, as Clark Edward Squire) is a former member of the Black Liberation Army
Edited sentence: "New Afrikan Prisoner of War.26 May 2011.He grew up in Vernon, Texas and graduated from Prairie View A & M College of Texas in 1956 with a B.He had been interested in the party before in his life but in 1968 he joined the Harlem Black Panther Party and did community work around issues of schools, housing, jobs, child care, drugs, and police brutality.He stuck by his political beliefs and what he knew to be the right thing, proving in the end for him be at peace with his decisions but also him becoming a political prisoner and spending the majority of his life behind bars for it.He was actually convicted of the death of the state trooper and was sentenced to Trenton State Prison (TSP) for life plus 30 years consecutive.He worked for the next thirteen years for various computer-oriented firms, mostly in the New York area.In May 1973, while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, he and his friends got into an altercation with the police and got into a shootout with N.Once eligible for parole in 1992, Acoli got hit with another 20 years at his hearing which was the longest hit in New Jersey history, which dictates that he must do at least 12 more years before coming up for parole again.One companion of Acoli's, Zayd Shakur, was killed, another, Assata Shakur, was wounded and captured.State trooper Werner Foerster was killed and another wounded, and Sundiata was captured days later.Sundiata Acoli, (born "Clark Edward Squire") is a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst, was born January 14, 1937, in Decatur, Texas.The International Jurist interviewed Sundiata and subsequently declared him a political prisoner in 1979.While incarcerated Sundiata has received hundreds of "Free Sundiata" letters from his supporters and people who see this man was trying to fight for the fair treatment and liberation of his people.With a year he and thirteen other part members were arrested in the Panther 21 conspiracy case and was held in jail without bail and on trial for two years before being acquitted by a jury that deliberated for less than two hours.in mathematics.state troopers