Christie is demanding that the Port Authority not allow direct flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Havana until Shakur is returned. “I will not tolerate rewarding the Cuban government for continuing to harbor a fugitive,” Christie wrote, according to the Post.

In 1973, New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was shot and killed with his own gun after a traffic stop involving Shakur and two members of the Black Liberation Army. Shakur was wounded in the shootout, and Zayd Shakur, the driver of the car, was killed.

Assata Shakur was tried and convicted in 1979, and although the state was unable to prove that she ever fired a gun, she was sentenced to 26 to 33 years in state prison. Later that same year, three members of the BLA were visiting Shakur when they reportedly took two guards hostage, stole a prison van and broke Shakur out.

Her whereabouts were unknown until 1984, when it was reported that Shakur was living in Cuba. That same year, Cuban officials gave Shakur political asylum.