The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a petition filed by the widow of a Philadelphia police officer who wanted anti-police Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner barred from handling ongoing appeals in the case of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther militant born Wesley Cook, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Daniel Faulkner. During his trial, Abu-Jamal didn’t deny the killing. As Faulkner tried to arrest Abu-Jamal’s brother during a traffic stop, Abu-Jamal shot the white policeman once in the back and then standing over him, shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Multiple eyewitnesses saw the killing.
