Black NJ State Trooper Anthony Reed (who has left the force) sued the police force because, among other things, persons had hung posters of Shakur, altered to include Reed's badge number, in a Newark barracks. He felt it was intended to insult him, as she had killed an officer, and that the act was "racist in nature".The Star-Ledger (January 19, 1996). "Black Ex-Trooper Tells Trial of Poster of Killer Chesimard Made to Mock." According to academic Dylan Rodriguez, to many "U.S. radicals and revolutionaries" Shakur represents a "venerated (if sometimes fetishized) signification of liberatory desire and possibility".Rodriguez, 2006, p. 61.
Black NJ State Trooper Anthony Reed (who has left the force) sued the police force because, among other things, persons had hung posters of Shakur, altered to include Reed's badge number in a Newark barracks. He felt it was intended to insult him, as she had killed an officer, and that the act was "racist in nature".The Star-Ledger (January 19, 1996). "Black Ex-Trooper Tells Trial of Poster of Killer Chesimard Made to Mock." According to academic Dylan Rodriguez, to many "U.S. radicals and revolutionaries" Shakur represents a "venerated (if sometimes fetishized) signification of liberatory desire and possibility".Rodriguez, 2006, p. 61.