30 Yrs. Too Many! Free Mumia! Demonstration Dec. 9, 6pm, Troy Davis Park (formerly Woodruff Pk, dwntwn Atlanta)
A Great Injustice for 30 Years-Mumia Must Be Free!
December 9th
March and Demonstration
We the People Honor Troy Davis! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
6:00 pm Troy Davis Park (formerly Woodruff Pk, downtown, edgewood and p'tree)
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December 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the night Philadelphia police shot, beat, and arrested the revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has now been sitting in solitary confinement on death row for 29 years.
Shortly before dawn, on December 9, 1981, Mumia was driving a cab on a downtown Philadelphia street. He saw a cop viciously beating his brother, William Cook, with a metal flashlight. Mumia rushed to the scene. He was shot in the chest by the cop, and was found sitting on the sidewalk in a pool of his own blood. The cop lay on the street nearby, dying from bullet wounds. Arriving police attacked Mumia, who was well known to them as a revolutionary journalist and a former Black Panther, and arrested him for the murder of the cop.
