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Mumia Abu-Jamal Hospitalized In “Diabetic Shock”
News One ^
| 3/31/15
Posted on 03/31/2015 10:12:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Abu-Jamal, 60, was taken from the Pennsylvania state Correctional Institution in Mahanoy to Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville Monday after passing out, his wife Wadiya Jamal said outside the hospital. She says prison officials told her he is in diabetic shock.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
His blood sugar level was very high – 779 – when he arrived at the hospital and remains at more than 300, she said. (Anything above 186 is considered dangerously high.)
A hospital spokesman said he could not confirm that Abu-Jamal is a patient at the hospital or release information about his condition. Family members said they have not met with a doctor, but have pieced together information from conversations with nurses and Abu-Jamal.
The former death-row inmate is shackled to a chair and receiving an insulin drip treatment in intensive care, his family said.
Abu-Jamal’s family tells Philadelphia’s ABC 6 that prison officials have failed to provide proper medical treatment.
Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia Officer Daniel Faulkner. His conviction was upheld through years of appeals, but he has gained international support for his claim that he’s the victim of a racist justice system.
We’ll keep you updated with the latest.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; copkllers; danielfaulkner; deathpenalty; diabetes; frymumia; justicedenied; mumiaabujamal; wesleycook
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AHH, there's good news tonight! Of course his supporters are already claiming he's being deprived of proper medical care, but what would you expect from a bunch of pigs other than a bunch of grunts? And as we speak Bill Ayers is frantically Tweeting about the plight of his poor sick a$$hole buddy. Since the state of PA hasn't the balls to put him 6 feet closer to hell, maybe karma will take over.
To: Impala64ssa
It is because all that white bread he ate in prison....
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:15:03 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: Impala64ssa
NICE hearing some good news tonight..hope the POS dies an Obamacare death
To: Impala64ssa
Jus' kick it over da edge
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:16:57 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
To: Impala64ssa
I hope it is a very slow and painful decline.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:17:58 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Slyfox
What a lovely care package to send to the Drealocked Devil. How thoughtful! ;)
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:17:58 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: Impala64ssa
Imprisoned journalist...Groan.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:20:53 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Islamic Immigration is Treason)
To: Impala64ssa
Could someone please him a cake with a thick layer of frosting on top...
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:21:23 PM PDT
by
Skybird
To: Impala64ssa
Refraining from comments.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:21:37 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Impala64ssa
These convicts will do anything to get out of prison.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:21:39 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: rdb3
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:24:53 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Impala64ssa
His blood sugar level was very high – 779 –
...
That’s not blood, that’s syrup.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:26:44 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Impala64ssa
Please send him – by high-speed bullet train – a boxcar full of classic Coke, Kristie-Kreme doughnuts, lemonade, Hawaiian sugar cane, & extra sugar, with straws so he can snort it directly.
Send the bill to his family or øfubaramugabeCare. Be sure to include the NYC tax on sugary drinks. Party on!
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:27:41 PM PDT
by
goldbux
(CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
To: Impala64ssa
One order of st. mumia, comin’ right up !
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:28:00 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Skybird
A double chocolate, three layer one, with extra sweet chocolate icing and chocolate shavings,sugar sprinkles, and candied fruits on the top.
To: Impala64ssa
Wonder if Obama would pardon him on his way out of office
To: Impala64ssa
Preparing to assume room temperature, at last.
To: Dagnabitt
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:31:04 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Army Air Corps
Imagine that.Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
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posted on
03/31/2015 10:31:24 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(THY KINGDOM COME)
To: Moonman62
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