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Fighting For Justice For Slain Officer Faulkner [Mumia Abu-Jamal......]
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Posted on 12/08/2006 4:47:15 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Fighting For Justice For Slain Officer Faulkner

(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Twenty five years ago Saturday, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered on a Center City street.

On Friday, his widow and 500 supporters are vowing to keep his convicted killer behind bars.

At the same time, those who support Mumia Abu-Jamal say he was unjustly convicted.

25 years after Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered, friends hugged and comforted his widow, much the way they did that freezing December morning in 1981 when he was gunned down near 13th and Locust streets.

For Maureen Faulkner, so much, yet so little has changed.

"I'm still fighting to have justice for Danny," said Maureen.

While it took a jury just three hours to convict Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and community activist, 25 years later Jamal is still battling to prove he's the innocent victim of a racially biased judicial system.

"This case begs for a new trial because of it being just wrought with error from racism and a lot of other things that happened during the original trial," said Jamal's attorney Robert R. Bryan.

Despite decades of appeals, at every possible court level, the prosecutor who helped convict Jamal in 1982 said not a single judge has ever questioned that Jamal is the killer.

"No question about it Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Danny Faulkner," said Joe McGill, former Prosecutor.

As Jamal's supporters around the world, including Hollywood celebrities, plan still more rallies and appeals, Mrs. Faulkner's battle in her husband's memory continues.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs3.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: copkillers; injusticesystem; murderers; nojusticenopeace; philadelphia; westleycook
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1 posted on 12/08/2006 4:47:17 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
The Medford Police Dept. was selling T-Shirts to support the Faulkner's it had a picture of a guy frying and had the caption "C'ya Mumia" I bought 2.
2 posted on 12/08/2006 4:50:05 PM PST by Dmitry Vukicevich (Vegetarian: Indian Lingo for lousy hunter)
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To: Sub-Driver

Fry Mumia


3 posted on 12/08/2006 4:50:27 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Keep him behind bars? I say set him free. Free from these bonds of flesh that bind us to this mortal plane anyway ...

He should have been executed more than 20 years ago. But the piece of dung still draws breath.

Kill Mumia!

4 posted on 12/08/2006 4:51:22 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is absolutely sick that the justice system allows this POS to continue to torture the Faulkner family for a quarter of a century.


5 posted on 12/08/2006 4:53:07 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is beyond my understanding why people would try to get this killer released.. The man should have been executed long ago.


6 posted on 12/08/2006 4:55:26 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Sub-Driver
25 years after Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered, friends hugged and comforted his widow, much the way they did that freezing December morning in 1981 when he was gunned down near 13th and Locust streets.

I'm surprised this poor woman isn't in some state hospital (not a shred of disrespect intended) with the 25 year old ringer she's been put through.

While it took a jury just three hours to convict Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and community activist, 25 years later Jamal is still battling to prove he's the innocent victim of a racially biased judicial system.

Jamal has never come out and said, "I am not guilty"; Ed Asner and other bored Hollywood morons do it for him.

"No question about it Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Danny Faulkner," said Joe McGill, former Prosecutor.

Not in my mind either.

As Jamal's supporters around the world, including Hollywood celebrities, plan still more rallies and appeals, Mrs. Faulkner's battle in her husband's memory continues.

This poor woman; the empathy I feel for her is hard to describe.

7 posted on 12/08/2006 4:58:14 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: Sub-Driver
Despite decades of appeals, at every possible court level, the prosecutor who helped convict Jamal in 1982 said not a single judge has ever questioned that Jamal is the killer.

Idiots


8 posted on 12/08/2006 5:00:17 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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But the piece of dung still draws breath.

...and writes books, and is a celebrity to all sorts of left wing crackpots.

9 posted on 12/08/2006 5:01:15 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: He Rides A White Horse

IIRC, his death penalty should have been carried out under Bob Casey Sr., who refused to sign any death warrants. Had that happened, this situation would be resolved, as Hollywood had not yet entered the picture.


10 posted on 12/08/2006 5:05:23 PM PST by Abby4116
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To: Sub-Driver

Why is he still in jail? Didn't he get the death penalty for killing an officer?


11 posted on 12/08/2006 5:09:34 PM PST by Eva
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To: Abby4116
IIRC, his death penalty should have been carried out under Bob Casey Sr., who refused to sign any death warrants. Had that happened, this situation would be resolved, as Hollywood had not yet entered the picture.

Perhaps he and OJ Simpson could collaborate in finding the real killers.

12 posted on 12/08/2006 5:10:35 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: Sub-Driver

Belated condolences to Maureen Faulkner and Daniel Faulkner's family and friends.


13 posted on 12/08/2006 5:10:47 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Sub-Driver

BTTT


14 posted on 12/09/2006 3:52:12 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Sub-Driver

FRY MUMIA in pig oil


15 posted on 12/09/2006 3:53:56 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Mumia is STILL alive!? I offered PA money for the electricity on this board over 7 years ago.

Ok, one more time, to the state of Pennsylvania, I will send a donation for the electricity to fry this low life. Just do it!

Sheesh.

5.56mm

16 posted on 12/09/2006 3:57:25 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Sub-Driver

A street named after him in St-Denis, eh? Have yet to hear of Lee Harvey Oswald Avenue,
Mark David Chapman Way, Sirhan Sirhan Street, Scott Peterson Circle...


17 posted on 12/09/2006 6:36:12 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

though, via Wikipedia: |

>>The Daniel Faulkner Memorial Highway is a section of U.S. Route 1 that passes through Northeast Philadelphia.


18 posted on 12/09/2006 6:45:07 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Sub-Driver
Wesley Cook manaqed to cheat the hangman thanks to liberal cop-killer supporters. He's a living example of what's wrong with the American justice system - its inability to punish murderers swiftly and decisively.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

19 posted on 12/09/2006 7:08:40 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

Cowards won't show their faces.


20 posted on 12/09/2006 7:17:23 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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