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At a press conference in Philadelphia, the mayor, and ex-police chief Frank Rizzo exploded at what he called "the new breed" of journalists. "They [the people] believe what you write and what you say," he said, "and it's got to stop. One day--and I hope it's in my career--you're going to have to be held responsible and accountable for what you do." This new breed of journalists were doing exactly what good journalists should do, being watchdogs over people in power. They were questioning the official stories given by police.
It just so happens that one of the most prominent of these journalists is currently on Pennsylvania's death row, awaiting execution. His name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia was minister of information for the Philadelphia chapter of the black panthers at age 15. He wrote for the national newspaper of the Black Panthers at this young age. After the fall of the panthers (with the help of Illegal FBI harassment) he moved to radio. Quickly becoming one of the biggest names in local radio, Mumia interviewed Jesse Jackson and became the president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, all by age 25. He even won a Peabody Award. He was however, still a radical, called by the Philadelphia Inquirer "an eloquent activist not afraid to raise his voice."
The Philadelphia police would live up to the threat of their mayor. It started with such things as a smiling cop cocking his finger and saying "bang bang" to Mumia. It escalated to a late night police beating of his brother. That night, he was driving a cab. He saw the beating of his brother by Officer Daniel Faulkner. Mumia stopped to try and stop the beating. He and Faulkner were both shot. Faulkner died. Several witnesses saw the shooter flee the scene. Mumia, meanwhile, lay unconscious from his own bullet wound.
The police claimed it was Mumia who shot Officer Faulkner. However, there are many reasons to suspect otherwise. How could an unconscious man have been seen fleeing the scene of the shooting? This obviously doesn't make sense. This is only the beginning of the problems with his conviction.
Mumia had a fundamentally unfair trial. The judge in his original trial, Judge Albert Sabo, a life long member of the Fraternal Order of Police, was a racist and wanted Mumia dead from the beginning. He was overheard at the trial by Terri Maurer-Carter, award winning court reporter, saying, "Yeah, and I'm going to help 'em fry the nigger." He forbad Mumia from defending himself because he made the jury "nervous." Mumia was not allowed to be at his own trial. Judge Sabo systematically removed all but one black juror from the jury. There is no way a trial, in this judge's courtroom, good have been fair.
There were other serious flaws with the trial. Mumia's history with the Black Panthers, a political party, were used by prosecutors as a reason for giving Mumia the death penalty, something later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Mumia was asked if he had said, "All power to the people." He admitted that, yes, he had. The District Attorney was later reprimanded for withholding evidence in another trial. Judge Sabo instructed jury, before they were to deliberate about whether to sentence Mumia to die, ""You are not being asked to kill anybody" because Mumia will get "appeal after appeal after appeal." This was also later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In one of Mumia's appeals Federal District Court Judge William H. Yohn Jr. ruled that in US courts, "innocence is no defense.
The problems with Mumia's conviction go beyond the procedural. Ballistics evidence shows that Daniel Faulkner was killed by a 44 caliber bullet. However, Mumia's gun was a 38 caliber.
Police officers claimed Mumia had confessed to the murder at the hospital, at the trail yet they did not make this claim until two months after the incident, right after he had filed police brutality charges. At the time of the incident the officer guarding Mumia wrote in his report, "The n
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Next on the agenda is to bid for the Olympics 2016 ... Just imagine the changes it will bring. China is hosting the 2008 Edition of the Olympics.
We did the site for the Commonwealth Games 2010, and I have put up an album of some photos of India here. This is an internal page that is not linked to from any other page as it was the database from which we were choosing our photos ...
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