'My mother was on the FBI most wanted list'

'My mother was on the FBI most wanted list'

By the age of three, Zayd Ayers Dohrn had learned to recognise plainclothes police officers and undercover agents in a crowd. Amongst the tell-tale signs were shoes that tended to be well-shined, even if the clothes were scruffy, and seemingly innocuous cars with a souped-up antenna on the roof. “I always knew that my parents were outlaws,” Dohrn tells me. “That was just a part of our understood background reality. They explained it to me by say…