The following is the first in a series of ten articles I have written answering the top ten myths being circulated by those who advocate execution or continued prison for Mumia Abu-Jamal. This is not the kind of move one does if they are guilty.
Judge Sabo denied the line-ups on these grounds. Supposed Witness To Mumia Shooting Faulkner Number One… Prosecution Star Witness Cynthia White Despite the false claims by the prosecution used to deny a line-up, Cynthia White did testify that she saw Mumia with a gun in his hand, that she saw him shoot Faulkner twice in the back, and that she saw Mumia standing over Faulkner as shots were being fired.
Overwhelming physical and eyewitness evidence proves that this was perjured testimony. Yet the physical evidence says this is not true. No divots or marks were left on the sidewalk from these missed shots. Later articles will explore this and other physical evidence further. As a prosecution witness, Cynthia White gave two extremely different versions of events at two different trials. Yet Mumia was not riding in the VW and the prosecution claims that Mumia was the lone killer.
These two differing versions, obviously including perjured testimony, were cynically used by prosecutors to fit differing prosecutions. There is also physical evidence of a passenger in the VW, evidence that was illegally suppressed by the prosecution for 13 years. That evidence was an ID found on the body of Officer Faulkner. It was in the name of Arnold Howard. As a result of this evidence, Arnold Howard was arrested by the police and tested to see if he had fired a gun the night of the shooting.
Transcript for August 11, , pp. In addition, Arnold Howard testified at that post conviction hearing that Kenneth Freeman was also arrested that night, and that Howard personally witnessed a woman picking Freeman out of a line-up. He told me that he was armed on that night and participated in the shooting.
He was connected and knew all kinds of people. I used to ask him about it but he talked but never said much. He wasn't a talker. I didn't see Poppi [Kenneth Freeman] for a while after that. Poppi [Kenneth Freeman] had been in Germany in the army. That night he was wearing his green army jacket. Mumia Abu-Jamal was not wearing an army jacket that night and not riding in the VW.
Nor did Mumia run away, he was shot and ran nowhere. The jacket Mumia was wearing is in evidence and it is a red quilted ski jacket with a couple blue stripes. Nor was William Cook, the driver of the VW, wearing a green army jacket.
Besides Singletary and Cook, five other eyewitnesses also put a man in a green army jacket on the scene. These were stake out Officer Forbes the putative first officer to arrive , Officer Stephen Trembetta, Robert Magiltan, Michael Scanlan, and Arnold Beverly, who has confessed to being one of two people who killed Faulkner. Beverly states in his confession that he was also wearing a green army jacket that night as well.
Six eyewitnesses contradict this by saying they saw men running from the scene. These would have been the real shooter or shooters. Eyewitness testimony and physical evidence suppressed by the prosecution shows there was a passenger wearing a green army jacket that shot Faulkner and ran.
So it is established, with her contradictory stories, that Cynthia White was not telling the truth. This would be bad enough. But, in fact, none of the nine eyewitnesses who testified at the trial and subsequent hearings can remember seeing Cynthia White at the immediate scene at all.
None, this includes the other prosecution witnesses. William Singletary states that he saw her earlier down the street. It's cold out here. You ain't that bad-looking either. But I don't date black guys. In addition, a mountain of testimony shows a clear pattern by the police to try to get similar perjured testimony from other people.
Jenkins testified at hearings in that Police Officer Thomas Ryan tried to make her testify that she saw Mumia shoot Officer Faulkner at the original trial, even though she was not at the scene of the shooting. Jenkins, 15 and a prostitute, was the girlfriend of Officer Ryan at that time.
She also testified that she worked both as a prostitute for police and as a police informant for the corrupt Center City Police. Jenkins also testified that Cynthia White told her in late that she was also being pressured to testify against Mumia, and that White was afraid for her life. When I said 'no' they pressured me some more and asked me was I really sure that I hadn't been on the street that night and seen the shooting.
It was clear to me that Tom Ryan and Richard Ryan wanted me to perjure myself and say that I had seen Jamal shoot the police officer. Jenkins' credibility has, however, been bolstered by the fact that she was a key witness used to unravel the massive police corruption in Center City District. Other eyewitnesses have said the same thing as Jenkins. Cynthia White told me the police were making her lie and say she saw Mr.
Jamal shoot Officer Faulkner when she really did not see who did it. She told me it was because for the police and vice threatened her life. Additionally, the police were giving her money for tricks. Lucky told me she had a lot of open cases and out-of-state warrants and was scared of going to Muncy.
She was afraid that when she got out he would beat her up or kill her. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say Mumia in sign language? Popularity rank by frequency of use Mumia Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Subscribe. Discuss these Mumia definitions with the community: 0 Comments.
Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE. Are we missing a good definition for Mumia? Don't keep it to yourself Sorry, I didn't mean to aim that at you, my readers, but this whole Mumia crap pisses me off much like those who go shake hands with Castro and talk about what a "nice guy" he is.
Paris has now named murder'n Mumia a fellow Parisian , and that's just it for me. Obviously there is nothing and no one of worth in Paris, and we should bomb it to ash and then pee on those ashes. I still own the bombfrance. The other day, O'Reilly had on the wife of Daniel Faulkner, the cop that Mumia murdered, and she talked about how she sent mail to pro-murderer activists like Susan Sarandon offering to go over the court transcripts with them to show that, in fact, Mumia is a goddamn murderer, but they would never respond to her in fact, the poor woman has been booed my murderer enthusiasts on a number of occasions.
O'Reilly, bless his arrogant heart, has vowed to pester and annoy those Hollywood activists to get them to answer for this, and Godspeed to him.
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