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.
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Fry Mumia
He should have been executed more than 20 years ago. But the piece of dung still draws breath.
Kill Mumia!
It is absolutely sick that the justice system allows this POS to continue to torture the Faulkner family for a quarter of a century.
It is beyond my understanding why people would try to get this killer released.. The man should have been executed long ago.
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.
Idiots
...and writes books, and is a celebrity to all sorts of left wing crackpots.
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.
Why is he still in jail? Didn't he get the death penalty for killing an officer?
Perhaps he and OJ Simpson could collaborate in finding the real killers.
Belated condolences to Maureen Faulkner and Daniel Faulkner's family and friends.
BTTT
FRY MUMIA in pig oil
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
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...
though, via Wikipedia: |
>>The Daniel Faulkner Memorial Highway is a section of U.S. Route 1 that passes through Northeast Philadelphia.
"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
Cowards won't show their faces.
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