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[Bradford DeLong]

>In a message dated 11/19/02 5:10:25 PM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com
>writes:
>
>d'accord writes:
>>Rallies that include taped addresses from convicted cop-killers
>>like H. Rap Brown--whatever the reason--are not going to lead to a broad
>>movement.
>
>I covered the H. Rap Brown trial, which was to be held in September 2001 but
>was delayed until this past March, and Jamil Al-Amin (Brown) is as much a
>'convicted cop-killer' as Geronimo Pratt is a 'convicted murderer.'  I don't
>claim to know what actually happened that night but the prosecution story
>sure as hell didn't fit the evidence.  For one thing, the cops were both
>convinced they'd shot the assailant (one officer later died) but when Al-Amin
>was apprehended he had no injuries.

So why then did the jury take a different view?

Brad DeLong