Mel Gibson’s historically-questionable but multi-Oscar-winning tale of the life and death of William Wallace edged out Trainspotting fairly comfortably in the end, with the light-hearted 1949 heist comedy Whisky Galore the only other contender to really separate itself from the chasing pack.īraveheart’s fans were more likely to be Yes voters (unsurprisingly), women (perhaps more surprisingly), working-class and SNP or Labour voters, with the middle classes preferring Trainspotting and Tory/Lib Dem voters opting for Whisky Galore. We asked Twitter users to name their favourite “Scottish” films – we didn’t specify what we meant by the term, leaving interpretation as open as possible – and put the 20 most popular answers into our latest Panelbase poll to see which ones the general public loved the most. Info from Hitemup.Scotland’s favourite Scottish movie is still Braveheart, folks.īut the devil, as always, is in the detail. He and trooper Werner Foerster were both killed in a shoot-out that followed. In 1973, brother of Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's uncle Zayd Shakur, and aunt Assata Shakur, were traveling on a New Jersey turnpike when they were stopped by a trooper. He was released after being proved innocent, and won a large sum of money for the false inprisonment.īorn in 1975, she is 4 years younger than Tupac was. Info from Īlso a member of the Black Panther party, he was recently released from prison after serving 27 years of a 25 to life sentence, for being convicted of murdering an LA school teacher. Assata escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba where she is living now under a grant of asylum from the government of Fidel Castro.
Despite the fact that forensic evidence showed that she had not fired a weapon, she was sentenced to life + 33 years in prison. She had a broken clavicle and a paralyzed arm. Assata was shot in the back, taken to the hospital and tortured while questioned. The third person in the vehicle, Sundiata Acoli, has served 20 years of her sentence and has been denied parole for another 20. An officer and Tupac's uncle, Zayd Shakur, were both killed.
In a highly controversial case she was convicted of murder in a shoot-out on the New Jersey State Turnpike in 1973. Tupac's aunt Assata Shakur, dubbed the 'soul' of the Black Liberation Army, is arguably the most famous member of the Shakur Family.
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