{"id":476809,"date":"2022-07-22T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/2pacs-stepfather-diagnosed-with-cancer-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:18:01","slug":"2pacs-stepfather-diagnosed-with-cancer-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2pacs-stepfather-diagnosed-with-cancer-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"#2Pac&#039;s Stepfather Diagnosed With Cancer In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc51d82b5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc51d82b5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2pacs-stepfather-diagnosed-with-cancer-in-prison\/#%E2%80%9C2Pacs_Stepfather_Diagnosed_With_Cancer_In_Prison%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;2Pac&#039;s Stepfather Diagnosed With Cancer In Prison&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C2Pacs_Stepfather_Diagnosed_With_Cancer_In_Prison%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;2Pac&#039;s Stepfather Diagnosed With Cancer In Prison&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/07\/6ix9ine-logic-3-1188x675.jpg\" alt=\"2Pac's Stepfather Diagnosed With Cancer In Prison\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Raymond Boyd\/Getty Images | Jim Hughes\/NY Daily <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n2Pac\u2019s stepfather Mutulu Shakur, who has been incarcerated for more than 35 years, has been diagnosed in prison with a rare and incurable form of blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have given the 71-year-old up to six months to live, and activists are fighting to get the American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army out from behind bars so he can say goodbye to his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis health situation is extremely dire right now,\u201d Shakur\u2019s attorney Brad Thomson told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/activists-are-working-keep-tupac-shakurs-activist-stepfather-dying-can-rcna39436\"><em>NBC News.<\/em><\/a> \u201cHe\u2019s very much on an end-of-life trajectory. We\u2019re looking at a matter of months at the most but, realistically, it could be a matter of days or weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cAt this point, the issue is getting him released so he can say goodbye to his loved ones, his family, his children, and grandchildren. To be surrounded by loved ones, so he can die in dignity, peace and comfort outside of prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgK8RuyMlZc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgK8RuyMlZc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by Dr. Mutulu Shakur (@freedrmshakur)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shakur, who was diagnosed with myeloma in 2019, was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1988 for charges including violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, bank robbery, armed bank robbery and bank robbery murder. He was also convicted of assisting 2Pac\u2019s\u00a0step-aunt Assata Shakur in her escape from a New Jersey prison in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Shakur\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied for a \u201ccompassionate release\u201d in May 2020 following his diagnosis, but U.S. District Judge Charles Haight Jr. denied his request, claiming his health hadn\u2019t deteriorated enough and that his crimes had been too severe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould it develop that Shakur\u2019s condition deteriorates further, to the point of approaching death, he may apply again to the Court, for a release that in those circumstances could be justified as \u2018compassionate,&#8217;\u201d Haight said in the ruling, per <em>NBC News. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the U.S. District Judge confirmed that Shakur has again applied for release and that the request is currently pending. He is currently incarcerated at a federal medical center in Lexngton, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Shakur\u2019s supporters have long claimed his acts were political rather than criminal. Jomo Muhammad, a Malcom X Grassroots Movement organizer striving to get Shakur out of jail, told <em>NBC New<\/em>s that his detainment was linked to his work with revolutionary Black groups in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFifty years later, the United States government continues to hold a grudge,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cYou can make the argument that he is, in fact, a political prisoner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Mackenzie Cummings-Grady\"><br \/>\nby Mackenzie Cummings-Grady\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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