MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Many supporters point to Abu-Jamal's association with MOVE, a community group
that was involved in a deadly clash with police in 1978. They also cite the move
by trial judge Albert Sabo to allow prosecutor Joseph McGill to question
Abu-Jamal about a statement he had made more than 10 years earlier as a
16-year-old member of the Black Panthers.
Former journalist and Black Panther member,
Mumia Abu-Jamal is currently fighting a death sentence for the 1981 slaying of a
white Philadelphia police officer. According to Abu-Jamal and his supporters,
the former National Association of Black Journalists' Philadelphia president was
unjustly convicted of the killing and was railroaded in the preceding trial.
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