That is, whoever drove the wrong way on 13th around that time crossed Locust and went further south rather than making a turn onto Locust, a fact that was, and surely still is, known to Abu-Jamal prosecutor Joseph McGill. Even so, the mere " and unfounded " suspicion that the unspecified car observed by the unknown security guard might have been Billy Cook's VW made it into the papers the very next day, creating a long-lived myth Abu-Jamal's detractors now try to capitalize on " and in rather shameless ways, as we will see later on (see below).
Apart from the above, McGill certainly also has to know there is positive evidence for the falsity of the "one-way thesis. Prosecution witness Albert Magilton, a pedestrian who testified to not having seen the shooting himself but said he first saw both Faulkner and Cook approaching the intersection and, a while later, Abu-Jamal running across the street, stated at Abu-Jamal's trial that Cook had approached the intersection 13th and Locust driving on Locust, not 13th Street.
Thus McGill must be aware that his claim about Cook's "traffic violation is false.
And his claims about this become doubly dishonest given the fact that he was also the prosecutor in Billy Cook's trial for aggravated assault on March 29, 1982, two and a half months before Abu-Jamal's murder trial began in which he also served as the prosecutor. Nowhere in this trial (nor in Abu-Jamal's own trial) did McGill make the slightest allusion to Cook having driven the wrong way on 13th Street, even though proving a traffic violation on Cook's part would have certainly made it easier to have Cook convicted for his alleged offense.
McGill's Tale II: How Faulkner Got Shot in the Back
McGill then claims that Faulkner took Billy Cook to the sidewalk on the southern side of Locust: "He took him right over to the sidewalk, this is police procedure. Then, according to McGill, Cook punched Faulkner "in the mouth, after which Faulkner turned Cook around to arrest him. At Abu-Jamal's trial, the star witness and prostitute Cynthia White had testified to exactly this version.
And then, "while this was occurring, and almost simultaneous to when this was occurring, which was rather curious, Abu-Jamal allegedly started running, "with his gun out, from the parking lot on the north side of Locust and started to shoot at Officer Faulkner.
The scurrilous thing about this is that the shot that hit Faulkner in the back exited just below his throat and that if Faulkner arrested Cook turning his back towards the street, it would have required almost a miracle for Cook to escape that bullet.
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