Mumia Abu Jamal - Live from prison

but i think that's businesses really have a shimon serving a life sentence for the nineteen eighty one *** of philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner abu jamal stays as long been controversy when provoked passions on both sides prosecutors a jury in every courtroom judge has reviewed this case evolution malls a cold-blooded killer was never expressed any remorse to abu jamal defenders and they stretch around the globe he is a victim of racism police corruption in the judicial system that they insist cannot be trusted abu-jamal the former member of the black panther party in a philadelphia radio journalist he has written extensively while in prison about crime and punishment life in prison and the death penalty mumia abu jamal joins us now on the phone from president mr abu jamal thanks for being part of the action is marriage that we are you talking to us from in hell i am calling in from of former c_i_a_ model a prison about perfect twenty six miles away from philadelphia montana representative manitoba it is a fact you experienced incredible racism growing up in philadelphia that you were beaten up by philadelphia police because of your activism and then a lot of people made life incredibly difficult and often physically painful for in the nineteen sixties and seventies why shouldn't people believe but on the night of december ninth nineteen eighty-one you sell officer stopping to get into an altercation with your brother that you corrupted and took it out on the police officer by shooting him to death well eppadi believed everything that got intermediate publicly but they do i mean why shouldn't you believe that the fact of the matter is that we have learned many many years and many many experiences in many many episodes but you cannot believe that which is reported or that which comes into a courtroom we ortiz away from uh... a documentary covering the central park five case i remember that covers about five or six years after my conviction what i saw what was covered in the papers on t_v_ hell i believe those five kits were killed in israel but i want to talk specifically about your case let's just listen to be blunt nor elements of the ways that i would have wanted to make sure that shield police officer and i you know i have but the reason i but that is there that that was even a compression and all of those cases they would claim to be a confession in my case even though when people were able to deconstruct and find out that this confession did not arise to months later it was never reported two months later well when you think about that in people's say they forgot that's incredible but let's let's put aside you referred to the of the alleged hospital concession that that that that prosecutors said you made the let's put that aside i mean the prosecution put forward three different witnesses robert shaver cab driver cynthia why prosecute michael stamina moto as they were all within fifty feet and they all said that you still police officer officer faulkner all those witnesses liars itself if it wasn't that many of them have recanted and other people have crippled people have not even impair pissy um... there are photographs which show that the cap rock claimed by the cab driver was not we are it was supposed to be their witnesses who said that uh... thank you why it was not at pepsi and she created different statement if you were able to read her statement you would find that they change everytime y because they promised her that they would let her work the streets she said what they wanted her to stay