“The Senate’s failure to confirm Debo Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant. Mr. Adegbile’s qualifications are impeccable. He represents the best of the legal profession, with wide-ranging experience, and the deep respect of those with whom he has worked. His unwavering dedication to protecting every American’s civil and Constitutional rights under the law — including voting rights — could not be more important right now.”
Barack Hussein Obama
On December 9, 1981, in Philadelphia, close to the intersection at 13th and Locust Streets, Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle belonging to William Cook, Abu-Jamal’s younger brother. During the traffic stop, Abu-Jamal’s taxi was parked across the street, and Abu-Jamal ran across the street towards the traffic stop. At the traffic stop, there was an exchange of fire. Both Officer Faulkner and Abu-Jamal were wounded, and Faulkner died. Police arrived on the scene and arrested Abu-Jamal, who was found wearing a shoulder holster. A revolver, which had five spent cartridges, was beside him. He was taken directly from the scene of the shooting to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he received treatment for his wound, the result of a shot from Faulkner.
Obama and Holder were very offended this Dogbo fellow did not get the votes, Obama will end up making a recess appointment. Pitiful I tell you, absolutely pitiful.
Don’t hit a cop with your cane or you might wake up dead.
Deadly NLR Police Shooting Startles Church Service
3/5/14, 21:31
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – “I’ve not heard a lot of gunshots in my life, but this was gunshots,” says witness Cornelius Mabin.
A man stirring trouble on a city bus full of passengers was shot and killed by North Little Rock police on Wednesday.
“He was assaulted by the suspect on the bus,” Mabin says.
According to authorities, a man in his 50s or 60s caused a Central Arkansas Transit bus to stop its route.
When police got there, the man reportedly started hitting the officer with a cane. That veteran police officer pulled out his gun, shooting and killing the suspect.
The NLRPD tells us state law and department policy has rules for when an officer can shoot his gun. Among those are two that could be applied in this case. First, when a felony is being committed (hitting a police officer is a felony) and second, emminent use of deadly physical force (not the use of a deadly weapon but force that could be deadly).
The shooting happened just after noon just feet away from a church that wasn’t empty. During the struggle an Ash Wednesday service was going on.
“We shut the door, and we locked the door, and we called 911,” says Rev. Anne Russ with First Presbyterian Church.
While it may not have been expected on this Christian holiday, the pastor says its quite fitting.
“The whole point of Ash Wednesday is that we acknowledge how frail life is, and how little control we have over it, as we are saying those words and imposing ashes on someone, we have shots fired outside the church,” she says.
Despite the gun play the church and surrounding buisnesses say safety is not a worry on their streets.
“The question of Abu-Jamal’s guilt is not a close call,” according to John Fund. “Two hospital workers testified that Abu-Jamal confessed to them: ‘I shot the motherf***er, and I hope the motherf***er dies.’ His brother, William, has never testified to his brother’s innocence even though he was at the scene of the crime. Abu-Jamal himself chose not to testify in his own defense.”
As Faulkner tried to arrest Abu-Jamal’s brother during a traffic stop, Abu-Jamal shot the policeman once in the back and then stood over him and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Multiple eyewitnesses were present during the crime.
One of those unapologetic supporters is former NAACP Legal Defense Official Debo P. Adegbile, who has worked tirelessly to free guilty murderer Abu-Jamal from prison.
After the Supreme Court threw out the Beard v. Abu-Jamal case in 2010, a petition was circulated calling for President Obama and Attorney General Holder to investigate the “long history of civil rights and constitutional violations” in Abu-Jamal’s case. If Adegbile is confirmed, it is likely he will open up an investigation into the Abu-Jamal case, despite multiple court rulings over the past three decades upholding his murder conviction.
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media seems to be less interested in Adegbile’s radical ties and more interested in his role on Sesame Street as a child actor.
Toomey and Williams: The Justice Nominee and The Cop Killer
Debo Adegbile’s disturbing support for Mumia Abu-Jamal should disqualify him.
By Pat Toomey And R. Seth Williams
Feb. 24, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET
In the coming weeks, the Senate will consider the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. There are those who object to the nominee on various grounds, and others who defend him. We raise concerns here about only one issue: Mr. Adegbile’s support for convicted Philadelphia cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Let there be no mistake. Our concern is not based on the fact that Mr. Adegbile acted as an attorney for a criminal defendant. The right to counsel is a fundamental part of America’s criminal justice system, and no lawyer should be faulted for the crimes of his clients.
But it is one thing to provide legal representation and quite another to seize on a case and turn it into a political platform from which to launch an extreme attack on the justice system. When a lawyer chooses that course, it is appropriate to ask whether he should be singled out for a high-level national position in, of all things, law enforcement.
To understand Mr. Adegbile’s involvement, you must first consider the nature of the case. In December 1981, Abu-Jamal shot and killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Immediately following the incident, Abu-Jamal confessed and stated before three witnesses that he hoped the officer died.
The murder was not a random street crime. Abu-Jamal was an ardent supporter of the “MOVE” organization—a racist, anarchist group founded in Philadelphia in 1972. The group’s radical positions included encouraging violence against police.
By murdering a police officer, Abu-Jamal became a MOVE hero in the 1980s. He relished the role, and he made every effort to turn his trial into political theater and incite racial conflict. Repeatedly, he and his supporters interrupted proceedings, insulted the judge, and abused the officer’s widow.
Ultimately, overwhelming evidence led to Abu-Jamal’s conviction and subsequent death sentence in 1982. Three decades of appeals followed, in which Abu-Jamal’s appellate lawyers echoed their client’s antics in legal maneuvers that made a mockery of the justice system. These appeals primarily functioned as a stage for Abu-Jamal’s hateful ideologies, painting him as the unjustly accused victim of a racist conspiracy.
Given this context—and the fact that Abu-Jamal was already well represented and had funds at his disposal—it is difficult to understand why, as acting president and director of litigation at the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Adegbile chose in 2009 to enter the circus created by Abu-Jamal and inject his organization into the case. Under Mr. Adegbile’s leadership and through rallies, protests and a media campaign, the Legal Defense Fund actively fanned the racial firestorm. In a news release issued when it took over as Abu-Jamal’s counsel, the Legal Defense Fund proclaimed that Abu-Jamal was “a symbol of the racial injustices of the death penalty.”
At a 2011 rally for Abu-Jamal, Mr. Adegbile’s co-counsel on the case stated that “there is no question in the mind of anyone at the Legal Defense Fund” that [Abu-Jamal’s conviction] “has everything to do with race and that is why the Legal Defense Fund is in the case.”
In 2012, even after Abu-Jamal’s appeals had been exhausted, and after the Philadelphia district attorney’s office had put the controversial case to rest by not seeking a new death sentence (which a court had voided in 2008 on the ground of faulty jury instructions), Abu-Jamal’s website reported that the Legal Defense Fund would remain active in the cause by investigating new ways to challenge his conviction.
Nevertheless, at Mr. Adegbile’s confirmation hearing last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he was questioned in detail about his own opinions of the incendiary allegations of a racist police conspiracy made by the Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Adegbile avoided answering the inquiries. Instead he repeatedly deflected questions, stating that he was not the lead lawyer on the case—as if, while acting as litigation director and later president of the Legal Defense Fund, he had failed to notice what was said by its lawyers about the group’s most famous client.
The Justice Department touts its civil-rights division as the “conscience of the federal government.” In light of that role, it is disturbing that Debo Adegbile—a man with impressive credentials but an unconscionable record in the Abu-Jamal case—is poised to become the next assistant attorney general to lead this division. On Feb. 6, the judiciary committee voted 10-8 along party lines to back his nomination.
Only three years ago, Mr. Adegbile was being considered to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but then he asked to have his name withdrawn. That would be the best course here. Mr. Adegbile is not suited to serve in this sensitive position.
Mr. Toomey, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. Williams is the district attorney of Philadelphia.
He only killed one cop.
Dammit.
“As I pumped gas, a young man, a white kid who looked college age, pulled up behind me. He was wearing a T-shirt that read “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,” and it immediately caught my eye.
I walked up and asked him where he got the T-shirt. He said he was a student at U.C.L.A. and they had recently held a rally for Abu-Jamal. I asked him if he knew anything about the case in which Abu-Jamal was involved.
He said, “Well, I know that this guy was a Black Panther who was railroaded. Someone else shot a police officer and he was framed for it.” I cringed when he went on with the usual recitation of misinformation being spun by the Abu-Jamal defenders: a peaceful black activist, a social dissident, hostile white police force, F.B.I. surveillance, conned eyewitness accounts, phony ballistics, etc.
I heard him out and offered to provide him with the actual facts of the case. He politely declined my offer. Before I left, I suggested that when he wore a political statement on his chest he would be well served if he knew his facts, because you never know when you might run into the widow of the officer. I left him in stunned silence.”
Maureen Faulkner
Defending criminals (or alleged criminals) is what criminal defense attorneys do. Next news flash, ditch diggers dig ditchs.
Adegbile’s rejection by the Senate is rare good news, but I’m not sure I like their stated reason. The whole “cop killer” thing, I mean. Jamal is a brazen, confessed and unrepentant killer of a human. His victim’s job doesn’t make him extra human. I agree that every defendant deserves a qualified defense, but not every lawyer has to take it upon himself to tie up the courts for decades with spurious claims of discrimination. Byron York wrote yesterday on RCP about how Adegbile still supports his theory while on the EEOC that employers shouldn’t be able to discriminate against felons when hiring – because of the disparate impact on minorities. That kind of craziness is reason alone to reject him even if he’d never had anything to do with Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Did I allegedly hit a nerve Petey boy?
A big fan of the Black Panthers?
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If Obama, Holder and Adegbile had their way, employers couldn’t decline to hire applicants with teardrop tattoos and neck tattoos that say “Only God Can Judge Me” because it’d have a disparate impact. These crazy evil bastards want to micromanage every hiring decision in the country and then they wonder why companies are reluctant to hire. The only thing worse than Obama is the electorate that put him in.
Don’t you realize our entire government is being run by radical socialists and fascists? Most of whom are minorities and blacks?
I think what most people missed in this story is the scumbag was appointed by Obama to the “Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice”. Maybe you can explain to me why we need an entire division of the Justice department for civil rights (preferential and entitlement treatment of blacks and Mexicans)? Nobody bothers to examine what exactly is going on, only that another Obama radical will/won’t get the job. Whites are being beaten, burned, murdered, raped and sodomized by blacks on a daily basis, yet I somehow don’t think the civil rights division of our joke of a justice system is going to do anything about it. And, when Obama gets more of his radical friends into high positions of authority, they will make it legal to beat, rape, and light whites on fire.
Whether you see it or not, this is civil war. We are fighting a soft civil war right now. Blacks versus whites. Obama, Holder, and all the radical black terrorists in high government office need to be impeached and tried for treason for their actions against this country.
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This bastard only had a dozen people watch him kill the cop.He is just another black radical lying piece of shit.Guilty as guilty can be.I remember loosening all respect for Paul.Newman who said he thought this guy was innocent and put up a large sum of money to help get him off.