Obama Nominee To Civil Rights Post Sparks Controversy Over Connection To Mumia Abu-Jamal

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – President Obama’s decision to nominate a former NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney to the top civil rights job at the Department of Justice is sparking outrage among the police unions for his connection to Mumia Abu-Jamal. Jamal was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982.

Debo Adegbile led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund when it successfully represented Mumia Abu-Jamal in a 2011 appeal that resulted in the reduction of his death sentence to life without parole.

“It’s an absolute slap in the face to every police officer, especially those who gave their lives in the line of duty,” says John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police.

“There’s outrage, there’s resentment there’s disapproval- you name it and our cops are feeling it,” he says.

full: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/01/10/obama-nominee-to-civil-rights-post-sparks-controversy-over-connection-to-mumia-abu-jamal/

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Philadelphia Inquirer, which begins the article: "Longtime Sesame Street viewers may remember him as Debo, the little boy who chatted with Grover about the letter S in the 1970s. But to the National Fraternal Order of Police, Debo Adegbile is a civil rights lawyer who "turned the justice system on its head" by providing legal assistance for Mumia Abu-Jamal."

[Cha]

1. thanks alp~

[The Magistrate]

2. As the Song Says, Sir: "Fuck The Police!"

I am pretty far from a 'Free Mumia' type, myself, but representing him with some success is more a qualification than otherwise for the post.

I suppose if I thought long and hard I could think of something I have more contempt for than the Fraternal Order of Police, but I would not want to bet the farm on it....

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9. OMG, Mag....not you?

[Recursion]

3. Wow, that's pathetic. And I'm not particularly a "Free Mumia" person

But what the hell do you expect a lawyer to do, not run with a case he's given?

[El_Johns]

4. I'm glad to see Obama appoint someone like this.

http://www.naacpldf.org/cases/significant

[sabrina 1]

5. Clearly the Fraternal Order of Police need some lessons on our Judicial System.

But something tells me they are not interested.

I did not know about this nominee but he has just received a huge endorsement, from the Fraternal Order of Police.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Philadelphia FOP endorses Tom Corbett in 2010

[font size="4"]POLS ON THE STREET: Corbett Gets FOP Nod[/font]
September 30, 2010 | Filed under: Latest News | Posted by: editor @pr

The Philadelphia Michael G. Lutz Lodge #5 of the Fraternal Order of Police yesterday announced its endorsement for Republican candidate for Governor Tom Corbett.

http://www.phillyrecord.com/2010/09/pols-on-the-street-corbett-gets-fop-nod/

And the rest is a nightmarish history. Enough said.

A defense lawyer's job is to defend.

Yet here is a story that the M$M has ignored regarding the "police" - I just heard this on Joe Madison's show this morning (regarding an incident that apparently happened last week) -

On one of the coldest days on record in the city of brotherly love, Manning, his coach and teammates – with their faces covered with scarves – exited the Girard Ave subway station attempting to go to the Berean Institute at 19th & Girard for basketball practice. Veronica Joyner, Principal/Founder, Mathematics, Civics and Charter School – and the woman who admittedly gave the young men the scarves to keep warm – notes that the team Manning and the boys play for ranks 16th in the nation, “the only team with that high of a rank without a gym,” she points out; adding the “students are forced to take a train, a trolley and walk several blocks to practice.”

Joyner says within 15 minutes of sending the boys out into the cold, bundled up, she received a call that one of her students was being arrested. Police said they felt justified to stop them because their faces were covered.

Joyner confirmed that all the officers involved were white. She feels strongly that “he was sexually abused and sexually assaulted.” Doctors are paying close attention to Manning, a budding law student, as this injury may leave him unable to bear children. Barely able to speak the graphic details, Joyner informs the public that Manning had to have the vein that enables sperm to travel to the penis reconstructed.



(Photo Credit: C. Norris – ©2014)

“She squeezed it so hard he heard something pop,” recounts Joyner, who endorses Jones’ description of Manning, stating: “He’s an honor roll student, excellent behavior, no discipline problems; just a great kid.”

Despite being the one to who ended up in Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Manning is facing charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest.

http://phillyinfocus.com/2014/01/15/communities-enraged-after-black-boy-sexually-assaulted-during-stop-and-frisk/

I understand there will be a rally here about this on January 21st.

The faux outrage over a defense lawyer nominee to the Justice Department is ludicrous considering the thousands killed or otherwise assaulted, abused, or harrased daily across the country by those who are supposed to "protect and defend".... Appointees are there at the pleasure of the President and are generally gone upon election of the next one. Yet it's rare that the police are punished and removed for their own crimes.

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7. Wow. What a scary story.

And I wonder if this howling about this Debo lawyer is what NY Times columnist Bob Herbert called "a genteel way of calling somebody a n____r." Besides, aren't there all sort of legit ways the prosecutors mishandled the Mumia case?

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8. I guess the Republicans will have to filibuster him then.

Oh, wait.