In September , 2016 , Stewart was quoted on the assassinations of police in Dallas and in Baton Rouge . " They are not brazen , crazed , you know , insane killers . . . They are avenging deaths that are never and have never been avenged since the '60s and '70s . " Despite the medical prognosis of having an estimated 18 months left to live , as of December 2013 , Stewart died on March 7 , 2017 , aged 77 , at her Brooklyn , New York home of complications from cancer and a series of strokes , according to her son , Geoffrey Stewart
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