SMALL MEASURE OF JUSTICE FOR DANIEL FAULKNER

Senate rejects Obama’s outrageous nomination of Debi Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division

On December 9, 1981, Philadelphia PD officer Daniel Faulkner stopped a car driven by William Cook for going the wrong way down a one-way street. Mumia Abu-Jamail, Cook’s older brother, happened to be sitting in a taxi in a parking lot across the street. Abu-Jamail rushed out of the taxi at officer Faulkner. An exchange of gunfire occurred in which the former Black Panther was wounded and Officer Faulkner was killed after being shot in the back and in the face.

When other cops arrived at the scene, Abu-Jamail was found wearing a shoulder holster and a revolver with five spent cartridges was laying by his side. At his 1982 trial, three eye witnesses testified they had observed Abu-Jamail shoot the officer, and that he shot Faulkner in the face as he stood over the fallen cop. A hospital security officer and a Philadelphia cop testified that, at the hospital, Abu-Jamail told them, “I shot the motherfucker and I hope the motherfucker dies.” Abu-Jamail was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

Abu-Jamail instantly became an international celebrity. For killing an oppressive fascist stormtrooper, he was glorified as a hero by the liberals of Hollywood and the World. He was praised by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He was made an honorary citizen of two-dozen cities worldwide. The French not only made Abu-Jamail an honorary citizen of Paris, but they named a suburban Paris street after him. Oliver Stone, Sting, Ed Asner, Alec Baldwin, Mike Farrell, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen and other far-left Hollywood luminaries embraced Abu-Jamail and actively fought in his defense, claiming he was a “prisoner of conscience” who had been framed by racist pigs. He was honored by two U.S. colleges as their commencement speaker, his address being delivered by recording.

With all the adulation over that worthless sorry-ass cop killer, Officer Faulkner became forgotten by all but his immediate family and his fellow Philadelphia cops.

In December 2011, after a prolonged appeals process, the Philadelphia District Attorney decided that his office would no longer challenge a 2001 federal court decision overturning Abu-Jamail’s death sentence. Prominent among the attorneys representing the scumbag on appeal was Debi Adegbile, who headed the NAACP legal defense fund.

Recently President Obama nominated Debi Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division. That, for the moment at least, broke the Congressional gridlock. A number of Democratic senators joined their Republican colleagues in objecting to Obama’s outrageous nomination.

Obama has succeeded in getting his liberal judicial nominees confirmed only because senate Democrats ramrodded through a rule last November that blocked Republican filibusters on presidential nominations. But on Wednesday, with the help of some brave Democrats, Officer Daniel Faulkner received a small measure of justice when the Senate voted 47-52 against the confirmation of Debi Adegbile.

Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, urged his fellow senators to reject the nomination. He said: “In this case, the nominee inserted his office in an effort to turn reality on its head, impugn honorable and selfless law enforcement officers, and glorify an unrepentant cop killer. This is not required by our legal system. On the contrary, it is noxious to it.”

Unfortunately, the life of Abu-Jamail has been spared while, due to that worthless piece of shit, a good cop has been resting in his grave for more than 30 years. All in all, justice for Officer Faulkner, his family and the law enforcement community has been denied.