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The 1981 Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army-related Triple Murder in Nyack, NY

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"On October 20, 1981 -- long after the Weather Underground had ceased to exist -- former Underground member Kathy Boudin and her soon-to-be husband, David Gilbert, were accomplices in the robbery of a Brinks armored car in Nyack, New York.

In the course of that heist, one Brinks guard and two Nyack police officers were murdered.

Also involved in the robbery was Judith Clark, who had served a prison term for her participation in the 'Days of Rage.'

Boudin hired attorney Leonard Weinglass, a law partner of her father, to defend her in the case.

Weinglass arranged for a plea bargain whereby Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for a prison sentence of twenty years to life.

She was paroled in 2003, however, over strong opposition from New York State police.

Gilbert remains in New York's Attica State Prison, having refused to bargain.

In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery [Brinks truck robbery/murder]) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40;
President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

1 posted on 05/10/2019 10:06:01 PM PDT by ETL
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AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981
[triple murder involving former Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army and Black Panthers members]


Jeral Wayne Williams (AKA Mutulu Shakur)
[stepfather of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur]

"The armored truck's final stop was the Nanuet National Bank on the second level of the mall.

The crew was due to pick up almost $1.6 million dollars in cash from the bank.

Inside the truck was an additional several hundred dollars in cash from earlier collections.

Pete Paige was assigned to guard his partner as he handled the cash.

His partner was assigned to enter the bank, retrieve the moneybags with Paige and place them into the back of the armored vehicle.

Also in the same parking lot that afternoon was a red Chevy van that cruised the area while the guards went inside the mall.

The rear and side windows had been covered with plastic so no one could see inside.

Inside the van was a man named Mutulu Shakur, 31, already a veteran of several armored car and bank robberies committed in the Bronx, Mt. Vernon, NY and Paramus, NJ. Shakur was an adopted name. His real name, or slave name as he described it, was Jeral Wayne Williams.

He was a black nationalist who ran a financially corrupt acupuncture clinic in Lincoln Hospital in New York City, the first such clinic in the Bronx.

Williams was an articulate and persuasive individual who recruited many disciples to follow him.

Under the banner of black self-determination, he convinced his accomplices that it was up to them to seize funds from legitimate sources and "redistribute" the money to various black causes.

With each robbery committed, the gang improved on its methods and became more sophisticated.

They studied the reaction of guards and the police.

They took the time to learn how police handled and investigated such crimes.

Then, they made the appropriate adjustments on the next job.

"David J. Gilbert, 37, rented the vehicle that same day in the Bronx.

Gilbert was a long time member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive from the state of Colorado where he faced charges of assault and possession of explosives.

The passenger in the front seat of the U Haul was Kathy Boudin [another former Weather Underground member], on the run from the law since the townhouse explosion in 1970.

The couple had dropped off their one-year old child with a babysitter in the morning and was waiting for the return of the red van."

"In the back of the red van were Cecilio 'Chui' Ferguson, 35, Samuel Brown AKA Solomon Bouines, 41, Samuel Smith AKA Mtayari Sundiata, 37, and Donald Weems AKA Kuwasi Balagoon, 35.

There were others present, but it has never been proven who, or how many.

All the men in back of the van were members of a group they called 'The Family.'

Most of them had ties to the Black Panthers or the Black Liberation Army, radical political groups that had many violent confrontations with police during the 1970s."

"At approximately 3:55 p.m., Paige, a 24-year Brink's veteran and his partner, Joe Trombino, 48, exited the doors to the Mall rolling out the moneybags on a hand truck.

They walked over to the Brink's truck and began to load up the bags onto the rear deck.

Simultaneously, the red van pulled up and the rear doors swung open.

One of the suspects, armed with a shotgun, ran to the front of the truck and immediately fired two blasts directly at the bulletproof windshield.

The guard in the front seat ducked just in time and was unhurt.

Another suspect, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M-16 automatic rifle before his feet even hit the pavement, striking Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly.

Joe Trombino fired just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder.

The bullets all but severed his arm off his shoulder.

"I've got no arm!" he screamed.

But Trombino would survive that day, only to perish years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/4.html

2 posted on 05/10/2019 10:06:20 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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The Investigation

The suspects were often described as "urban terrorists" in the press and cops everywhere were deeply worried about the role of the Black Liberation Army.

The B.L.A. was a notorious and violent group of extremists who planned and carried out unprovoked shootings of uniformed police officers. During the 1970s and early 1980s, there were several of these types of killings of which the B.L.A. were suspect. On May 20, 1971, New York City Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were shot and killed in an ambush in Harlem.

The following year, on January 28, 1972, officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie were murdered outside a restaurant in Manhattan. Another such shooting occurred on the night of April 16, 1981 when uniform cops pulled over a suspicious van in the St. Alban's section of Queens.

Without any warning, two men jumped out of the rear of the van with machine guns and opened up on the unsuspecting cops. Both were immediately killed. This cold-blooded killing enraged cops everywhere. A later investigation indicated that an escaped radical, Joannne Chesimard, one of the most sought after individuals in America, may have been in that van.

She was serving a life sentence for her role in the murder of a New Jersey State trooper in 1973 when she escaped from custody in 1979. This theory was never proven, but to this day, many of the investigators who worked on that case believed it to be true.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/10.html

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"[Bernardine] Dohrn [Bill Ayers' co-terrorist wife] once was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers [and 1 Brinks guard] were killed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011101/aponline190504_000.htm

3 posted on 05/10/2019 10:06:44 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Judith Clark
4 posted on 05/10/2019 10:08:09 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Has she expressed the slightest sincere regret, admitted fully her guilt, and apologized? Or is she a unrepentant leftist still?


5 posted on 05/10/2019 10:10:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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"Another suspect, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M-16 automatic rifle before his feet even hit the pavement, striking Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly.

Joe Trombino fired just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder.

The bullets all but severed his arm off his shoulder.

"I've got no arm!" he screamed.

But Trombino would survive that day, only to perish years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/4.html


Joseph Trombino, killd at the World Trade Center
Sept 11, 2001

6 posted on 05/10/2019 10:13:10 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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1981. Weather Underground and Black Panthers robbing bank and killing cops.

and that lying Commie bastard (he was born out of wedlock, look that sht up) Obama said he was only a small chil’e when the Weather Underground were a thing.


11 posted on 05/10/2019 10:28:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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Related image

Former Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn speaks to members of the press outside Federal Court in New York, May 18, 1982.

Dohrn, being questioned about the Brink's robbery in Nyack, New York in October 1981, has refused to give a sample of her handwriting to a grand jury.

Also present are Dohrn's friend Bill Ayers, left, and attorney Michael Kennedy

https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/michael-j-kennedy-tribute/

12 posted on 05/10/2019 10:31:04 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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In addition to the Brink's robbery, May 19th committed a series of bombings at government and military buildings.

Would appreciate any help in parsing this sentence.

Regards,

14 posted on 05/10/2019 10:41:59 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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“In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery [Brinks truck robbery/murder]) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40.

President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20110430020748/http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

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Eric Holder's role in the pardons of BLA comrades/Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans...

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ERIC HOLDER

"As Deputy Attorney General, Holder, as The Washington Post explained, 'was the gatekeeper for presidential pardons.'

Indeed, Holder was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001.

The beneficiaries of those pardons included such notables as former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (who had used false identification to buy firearms, harbored a fugitive, and was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985)."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2357

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Susan Rosenberg Withdraws

Mike Debraggio
December 8, 2004

Susan Rosenberg, who had been invited to Hamilton College as an artist-in-residence with the Kirkland Project, has decided to withdraw.

She was scheduled for a month-long seminar on memoir writing next semester, which raised concerns both on and off campus because of her past.

Ms. Rosenberg served 16 years in prison for possession of explosives and weapons before her sentence was commuted by President Clinton in 2001.

The Hamilton College faculty met on Tuesday afternoon (Dec. 7) and engaged in a thorough and thoughtful discussion and affirmed the high value they place on the free expression of a diversity of opinions by people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Ms. Rosenberg subsequently indicated that she considered it in the best interests of all parties to withdraw.

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/susan-rosenberg-withdraws

16 posted on 05/10/2019 10:50:28 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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> Clark’s involvement in the revolutionary May 19th Communist Organization

Communists sure do love money.


17 posted on 05/10/2019 10:52:58 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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The Brinks robbery literally hit close to home for me. The Nanuet Mall was one of our hangouts. How no civilians were injured is amazing. So, yeah my contempt for the 0bamas, in a small way is personal. Another thing, I don’t recall one peep of outrage from the Brady Campaign, Handgun Control, Inc or any gun grabbers, who up until just days earlier were screaming bloody murder over the shooting of John Lennon. I learned back then how liberal/left leaning organizations think they’re slick at how they pick and choose their battles.


22 posted on 05/10/2019 11:02:09 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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Here’s an updated link to the (har har) “Intellectuals” conference Obama, Ayers and Dohrn were once scheduled to participate in. Not sure, but I think the event was later canceled.

The Center for Public Intellectuals
&
the University of Illinois-Chicago

April 19th-20th, 2002

https://web.archive.org/web/20100416050230/http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm


25 posted on 05/10/2019 11:15:28 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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The Democrat praised her as a model prisoner.

Since most rats 🐀 are a bunch of communists themselves, it’s no wonder that POS would praise her. I wonder if she registered to vote yet? 👎

26 posted on 05/10/2019 11:17:16 PM PDT by Mark17 (What, exactly, was the "only evil continually," that was going on in the days of Noah?)
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I still have a problem with these people being given the right to vote, but others here [perhaps trolls] think otherwise.


28 posted on 05/10/2019 11:20:37 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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The $1.6 million armored truck robbery led to the shooting deaths of Brink's guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown.


Peter Paige, a Brinks guard, was killed in the heist in 1981. He was 49


Nyack police officers Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown

31 posted on 05/10/2019 11:39:25 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Fake Dossier, Uranium-1 Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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The Dems...They are the party of murders...BLA murders can walk free while babies are being MURDERED by so called doctors. The Dems are trying to MURDER the USA, too.


43 posted on 05/11/2019 3:47:20 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: ETL

Some college will probably hire her as a professor.


47 posted on 05/11/2019 5:01:30 AM PDT by euram (is)
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TL;DR

Does Judith Clark still proclaim to be a ‘red’?


48 posted on 05/11/2019 5:12:35 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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But wait, there’s more...
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-on-politics-column-20190131-story.html


49 posted on 05/11/2019 6:24:37 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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Three LEOs dead..... who cares if she was a model prisoner. They are still dead and now she gets to freely enjoy her twilight years.


51 posted on 05/11/2019 7:29:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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