PHILADELPHIA (AP)—More than three decades after Officer Daniel Faulkner was gunned down on a city street by Mumia Abu-Jamal, officials last Monday unveiled a mural memorializing the officer at the police district headquarters to which he was assigned. Police officials and Faulkner’s widow hailed the 25-foot-tall mural painted on the side of the building in the city’s Chinatown section as a fitting tribute to the officer, who was shot in December 1981 in downtown Philadelphia.
“It’s very emotional for me,” said his widow, Maureen, fighting back tears. “Even though it’s been (almost 33) years, it brings back so many memories of what happened the night Danny was murdered.”
Abu-Jamal, a onetime radio journalist and former Black Panther who was sentenced to death in 1982, has drawn international support in the decades since his conviction amid claims that he was the victim of a racist justice system. In 2011, prosecutors agreed to a life term after a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing, citing flawed jury instructions.
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