Biography
Abdul Majid was a native of Queens New York and had been imprisoned for two decades. In the 1960s, he worked in the Grass Roots Advisory Council, an anti-poverty program. In the late 60s Abdul joined the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Afrika. Abdul was involved in many of the community- based programs of the BPP including the free health clinic, free breakfast for children program, and efforts to decentralize the public schools and the police department. After the BPP was destroyed by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, Abdul worked as a paralegal at Bronx Legal Services.
Breakthrough’s Spring 1982 prisoner correspondence directory names Abdul Majid with the historical mailing address Queens House of Detention, 126-02 82nd Ave., Kew Gardens, Queens, NY. This is a contemporaneous mail-directory reference; it does not establish first physical admission, exact transfer, final release or uninterrupted housing there.
The November 1985 New York report says the Rockland County prosecutor moved to dismiss Anthony LaBorde’s Brink’s-related murder and robbery charges on September 7, 1982; its narrative confirms dismissal for lack of evidence. This was separate from his police-shooting prosecution.
Under his established alias Anthony LaBorde, the report dates actual arrest in Philadelphia January 7, 1982 and distinguishes the later New York prosecution. It says the Brink’s charges were dropped for lack of evidence; that dismissal did not undo the separate police-shooting conviction or establish release from all custody. The chronology dates that separate conviction August 9, 1982.
Report of the New York State Policy Study Group on Terrorism, November 1985, PDF page 36.
