The official policy of the Fraternal Order of Police is to harass and threaten anyone who speaks out in support of a new trial for Abu-Jamal, the Black revolutionary journalist on Pennsylvania's death row. In late March the singer Harry Belafonte received threats and was picketed when he gave a concert in Kansas. Similar treatment has been dished out to Rage Against the Machine, Sting, Whoopi Goldberg and others. The FOP is behind a nationwide smear campaign against the students at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the ensuing struggle Faulkner was killed.
Eyewitnesses say another man was the shooter.
Ballistics tests show Abu-Jamal's gun was not the murder weapon. The former Black Panther has always maintained his innocence. Yet he was convicted and sentenced to die for killing Faulkner. His supporters charge that Abu-Jamal was framed because of his longstanding struggle against racist police brutality. Abu-Jamal's appeal has entered the federal courts.