From The Partisan Defense Committee- June Is Class-War Prisoners Month- Free All Class-War Prisoners- A Special Note On Assata Shakur's Comrade And Black Liberation Army Fighter Sundiata Acoli

...Also on May 22, we wrote to the New Jersey State Parole Board on behalf of Sundiata Acoli. In May 1973, Acoli, along with fellow Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army comrades Assata Shakur and Zayd Malik Shakur, was attacked by New Jersey State troopers. The trooper killed in the ambush
of the black activists was shot with a bullet from a police revolver. Sundiata Acoli initially escaped the ambush, but was later captured, tried separately, railroaded and sentenced to life plus thirty years.

Our letter pointed out that we have come to Mr. Acoli's defense before. He is now 75 years old and has been incarcerated for 39 of them. Having no disciplinary reports for many years, we said there is absolutely no reason to deny him parole. Our letter said, "We feel it is an injustice that Sundiata Acoli was incarcerated at all much less for 39 years. We call for his release."