Chobert changed his testimony three times to conform to the police scenario. The photographs recently made public by Polakoff show conclusively that the police manipulated the crime scene, rearranging critical evidence and destroying fingerprint evidence on guns found at the scene.
The critical details of the frame-up have been vividly recounted for decades, with new evidence found just months ago further proving their veracity. New ballistic evidence revealed by Michael Schiffmann, a German researcher who wrote his PhD. thesis on the case, again demonstrates the impossibility that Mumia murdered Officer Faulkner.
What Will It Take To Free Mumia?
What can be done today to win Mumia’s freedom? In a perfect world the solution would be in the French tradition of 1789. Drive the corrupt modern day monarchs of capital from their haughty palaces of power and storm the Bastille to free the innocent, including Mumia!
But we do yet not live in a perfect world. Our power has proved sufficient to stay the executioner’s hand for 25 years and beat back two warrants for Mumia’s execution. It has gotten us to the point where a possible aberration in the system has allowed the May 17 hearing to finally expose critical aspects of Mumia’s frame-up. But we are still far from seeing a free Mumia walk out of his supermax death row cell at the State Correctional Institution Greene in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
With the fight for one man’s life (Mumia is Everyman and Everywoman who faces death at the hands of criminals) once again on the line and at center stage, we have a new opportunity to reinvigorate our movement, broaden its base and ensure that justice is done.
Our capacity to mobilize in unprecedented numbers and make the political price of Mumia’s murder and continued incarceration too high to pay is central to the work ahead. History has amply demonstrated that all of our historic victories stem from the exercise of our collective power. That power lies with all who cherish freedom and despise injustice. Join the fight for Mumia’s freedom!
--Jeff Mackler is the Director of the Northern California-based Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, FreeMumia.org; 415-255-1085.
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