{"id":551,"date":"2007-02-02T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=551"},"modified":"2007-02-02T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:21:10","slug":"jamal-had-his-judas-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/jamal-had-his-judas-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamal Had His Judas Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And when his Judas tried to confess<br \/>\nthat stellar Philadelphia Police force<br \/>\nwho had been charged 23 times with extracting false confessions<br \/>\nsuppressed the confession.<\/p>\n<p>Want July 13th, 2004 police brutality facts?<br \/>\n&#8220;Carjacker Thomas face down on the ground<br \/>\n20 cops punched &#038; kicked him 59 times.<br \/>\nBetween &#8217;94 and &#8217;00 Philly&#8217;s finest killed<br \/>\n5 unarmed men (one named Moises De Jesus).<br \/>\nMayor Timoney promises justice but like Jamal,<br \/>\nboth were black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mumia Abu-Jamal<br \/>\nspeaks of the sonic sound of silence<br \/>\n&#8220;I weep, cry, hurt &#8211; just like any man.&#8221;<br \/>\nMumia lives, seeing the world only thru Plexiglas<br \/>\nunable to even touch another human and reports<br \/>\n&#8220;After too many years of isolation, the spirit dies<br \/>\nlong before the body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did Jamal confess? No.<br \/>\nHas he lost hope for justice? No.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have no choice but to believe in American justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Jamal now has a radio show:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.prisonradio.org\/mumia.htm<br \/>\nWho will listen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when his Judas tried to confess that stellar Philadelphia Police force who had been charged 23 times with extracting false confessions suppressed the confession. Want July 13th, 2004 police brutality facts? &#8220;Carjacker Thomas face down on the ground 20 cops punched &#038; kicked him 59 times. Between &#8217;94 and &#8217;00 Philly&#8217;s finest killed 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/jamal-had-his-judas-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jamal Had His Judas Too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}