Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

I noticed one of our new members has in his profile "free Mumia!" Not the first poster to have that either. I am interested in learning more from the free Mumia side.

OK, so what happened on the day that Mumia shot Faulkner, according to the free Mumia side?


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Revolutionary

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.

For the last 25 years, Abu-Jamal has been locked up 23 hours a day, denied contact visits with his family, had his confidential legal mail illegally opened by prison authorities, and put into punitive detention for writing his first of three books while in prison, Live From Death Row.

His case is currently on appeal before the Federal District Court in Philadelphia. Mumia's fight for a new trial has won the support of tens of thousands around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, The European Parliament, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Maya Angelou, Sister Helen Prejean, Danny Glover, Rage Against The Machine, the Detroit and San Francisco City Councils, Amnesty International, and many others. Mumia Abu-Jamal's fate rests with all those people who believe in every person's right to justice and a fair trial.

"I remain innocent. A court cannot make an innocent man guilty. Any ruling founded on injustice is not justice. The righteous fight for life, liberty, and for justice can only continue." Mumia Abu-Jamal , Oct. 31, 1998

Facts about Mumia's 1982 trial:

* The policeman was killed with a 44 caliber gun. Abu-Jamal's gun which he was licensed to carry as a night-time taxi driver, was a 38 caliber.

* The police never tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had been recently fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They have never shown Abu-Jamal 's gun to be the fatal weapon.

* No police officers present at Abu-Jamal's arrest claimed to have heard Jamal's "confession" until two months after it allegedly occurred. This was right after Abu-Jamal had filed police brutality charges.

* Abu-Jamal's doctor said that Abu-Jamal, who was unconscious, said nothing. He reported that a nurse found police with loaded guns pointed at Mumia as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.

* William Singletary, a Vietnam veteran and local businessman, saw the whole incident and has testified that Abu-Jamal was not the shooter. However, the police forced him to change his story and intimidated him into leaving Philadelphia.

* Other key witnesses, such as Veronica Jones -- who now testifies in support of Abu-Jamal, were harassed into giving false testimony. Two prosecution witnesses were given special favors, including exemption from criminal prosecution, for their testimony.

Elements in an unfair trial:
* The Judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other sitting judge in the US.

* The public defender didn't interview a single witness in preparation for the trial, and didn't have funds for defending a capital case.

* The prosecutor removed 11 qualified African Americans from the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because of Mumia's membership in the Black Panther Party, a practice later condemned as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.

* The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but 13 non-white.

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The Mobilization To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S FREEDOM JOURNAL

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Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

Who shot Faulkner then?

Revolutionary

Someone who was never caught...thats the point. In cases where an innocent man is convicted, the perpetrator of the crime goes free.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

Some random passerby just shot Faulkner? ......

How many times was Faulkner shot (according to the free Mumia people)?


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Oedipus Rex

More Than 17 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal Still Guilty

More Than 17 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal Still Guilty

by Daniel J. Flynn


At least five witnesses said they saw Abu-Jamal kill the policeman. A gun registered to Abu-Jamal was found by the suspect’s side. Abu-Jamal was wearing a holster. The gun at his side contained five spent shells. Five bullets were extracted from the slain officer that matched the shells found in Abu-Jamal’s gun. The journalist was hit with a return round from Officer Faulkner’s service revolver. Even William Cook, Abu-Jamal’s own brother, has never denied the guilt of his sibling.

In a 1996 statement given to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Eastern District, Veronica Jones retracted statements she made under oath at the original trial thirteen years earlier. Her denials of seeing men run away from the scene, she now maintains, were coerced by the police. While Jones still only purports to have peeked at the crime scene "a few minutes later," she now explains that she "did see two men leave the scene in a hurry as was reported by me to the police in an earlier signed interview." Jones has changed her story several times since 1981, admits to drinking and smoking marijuana heavily that day, and, like key prosecution witness Cynthia White, was working as a prostitute on the night in question.

While there aren’t any credible eyewitnesses who saw anyone but Abu-Jamal kill Faulkner—even Mumia and his brother have never claimed to have seen another shooter—there are at least five people who testified that the man later convicted of the crime did in fact kill the policeman. Eyewitnesses Michael Scanlon, Robert Harkins, Cynthia White, Robert Chobert and Albert Magelton all pin the murder on the man arrested at the scene by the police: Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Revolutionary

...and not only do people still think he is guilty, he does not even get a re-trial. MUMIA IS A POLITICAL PRISONER OF THE STATE.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

I don't know why you re-posted that. We saw that the first time. Also, Oedipus Rex just did serious damage to your argument. You say in amazement and people still think he's guilty! Oedipus Rex's post shows why.


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Revolutionary

You cannot put someone behind bars with that much doubt and shaky trial measures.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

If that is your response to this: Tell me about the Mumia case

You certainly have not made me switch to your side.


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