San Jose Adult Entertainment: ‘Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal’
At 4 p.m. a demonstration was held in front of the regional governor’s office on South Broad Street. Protesters held “Honk for Mumia” signs and blew whistles on the state’s protracted campaign to deny justice to an innocent man. The demonstration and whistle blowing then moved to District Attorney Lynne Abraham’s office near the Philadelphia City Hall.
Later in the evening, an organizing meeting scheduled at the American Friends Center was expanded to include a special tribute to Veronica Jones, who died on Dec. 8.
On Dec. 15, 1981, Jones, a sex worker who was in the area where Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot in the early morning hours of Dec. 9, 1981, told police she had seen two men running away from the crime scene before police arrived. Later, facing charges that could have meant 10 years in prison and the loss of her children, Jones was pressured into recanting her eyewitness account, even denying making the original statement, after police visited her in jail.