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Mtayari Sundiata

AKA: Samuel Smith
Released
Date of death:23. 10. 1981
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1980s
State:New York
Support
Black Liberation New Afrikan Independence Black Liberation Army Republic of New Afrika
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Biography

Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, born Samuel Smith, was a Black Liberation Army member who participated in the October 20, 1981 Brink s armored-car expropriation in Nyack, New York. He fled the scene after the gunfight that killed Brink s guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Edward O Grady and Waverly Brown, and was killed three days later by NYPD detectives in a confrontation in Queens, New York on October 23, 1981.

Case

Charges: Black Liberation Army participation in the October 20, 1981 Brink s armored-car expropriation in Nyack, New York; killed by NYPD October 23, 1981
Sentence: Killed by NYPD October 23, 1981 Verdict as recorded: No - killed before any prosecution
Convicted: No