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...rally ended promptly at 4 o' clock so the city could avoid paying police overtime. Sanitation crews came in, sweeping up the littered "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal" signs and pamphlets marked "Living Wage" that detailed the plight of poorly-paid workers...
...hundred demonstrators still lingered at Thomas Paine Plaza next to city hall, supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black radio journalist sentenced to death for the murder of a Philly...
...name is Mumia Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, and the facts are these: In the first hours of Dec. 9, 1981, Danny Faulkner made a traffic stop on Abu-Jamal's brother, William Cook, who was driving the wrong way on a one-way street with his lights off. Witnesses describe an altercation after Cook resisted Faulkner. Abu-Jamal, who was driving a cab and happened upon the scene, traded gunfire with Faulkner. When police arrived, Abu-Jamal was on the pavement with a bullet in his chest, his shoulder holster empty. A gun registered...
...trial, Abu-Jamal feuded with the judge and insisted on representing himself. He made political speeches, was removed from the courtroom several times and was convicted by a jury of 10 whites and two African Americans, who deliberated less than two hours in the penalty phase before coming back with a death sentence. I didn't know much about the case when I moved to Philadelphia in 1985 to work for the Inquirer. But I later heard it said that Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and Black Panther Party member, had been railroaded and that evidence pointing to another...
Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Sunday, August 13): A mass march and rally to demand a new trial for a Philadelphia man convicted of the 1981 murder of a policeman...