Mumia: Still Guilty After All These Years
Activists who are trying to free convicted Philadelphia cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal from Death Row and get him a new trial say they will protest outside Rockefeller Center tomorrow morning as the widow of the police officer appears on the Today Show.
Abu-Jamal’s supporters are angry that NBC won’t give them equal time to peddle their oft-told story on the air when Maureen Faulkner touts her new book, Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice. That story includes new photographic evidence that they say shows that police manipulated the crime scene and framed Abu-Jamal.
Notice that I did not write alleged cop killer in the opening paragraph – and for good reason. As surely as the seasons come and go, Abu-Jamal and his sycophantic supporters cycle in and out of the headlines. I knew Abu-Jamal, am intimately familiar with his case and have no doubt that he is guilty as sin.
I don’t remember why I had stayed after my 1 a.m. quitting time as night city editor of the Philadelphia Daily News early on the morning of December 9, 1981, but I do remember that I was talking to Tom Schmidt, the overnight editor, when a message crackled over one of the police radio scanners:
“Officer down at 13th and Arch. Send back-up and assistance.”
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3 Responses to “Mumia: Still Guilty After All These Years”
Mumia, Leonard Peltier, ans a handful of other asses, are the Left’s albatross: http://www.cosmoetica.com/B45-DES21.htm
It’s a shame that reality is always distorted by things other than the real.
If not for the death penalty, Mumia would be rotting away forgotten in prison, where he obviously belongs.
Well, cosmoetica, you’re right about one thing, both Mumia et al and those on the Left who support him, represent a handful of asses.
Certainly no more an “albatross” than the handful on the Right who, for instance, support bombing abortion clinics.