CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Teachers Union is drawing fire on Monday for a social media post that praised a polarizing Black activist who died last week.

Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army, had been convicted of killing a New Jersey State trooper in the 1970s.

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On Monday, some Chicago City Council members condemned the post as promoting violence and extremism. A group of alderpersons called out CTU for glorifying a fugitive who had been sentenced to life in prison for murder, and they called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to denounce the social media post as well.

Shakur, the godmother of rapper Tupac Shakur, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a state trooper in 1973 during a shootout on the New Jersey Turn

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