Maureen Faulkner weighs in on former NFL player Colin Kaepernick calling for the release of a cop killer.
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To be free,
free, Mumia
Ainsley, Mumia Abdul Jamal was
convicted of murdering Daniel
Faulkner during a traffic stop
in nineteen eighty one,
his death sentence was
overturned and he is currently
serving a life sentence. Now
joining me is Maureen Faulkner,
the widow of the slain police
officer, Daniel Faulkner
Good Morning, Maureen
Good Morning, Ainsley
Ainsley good Morning,
im, sorry for your loss,
you lost your police officer,
husband. You were married three hundred and ninety six
days and it changed your life.
This push to free your killer. A
lot of celebrities have jumped
on this bandwagon for years.
What do you say to folks like
Colin Kaepernick?
First of all, I would love to
speak to Colin Kaepernick.
I would like to sit down and
talk with him face to face.
He is spewing lies about my
husbands case.
He was just a young child when
my husband was murdered and why
he has taken up this cause. Our
whole family disrupts the entire
family emotionally and brings
hurt to us,
and I dont know why he is. He
is bringing this cause to at
this time.
It really baffles me
Ainsley well Maureen. He said
that Mumia Abdul Jamal was
innocent. He was framed.
He goes on to talk about
Fernandez over one slash. Three of the
officers involved in your
husbands case were convicted of
corruption, extortion or
tampering with evidence in
unother related cases. Is that
true,
no,
its a lie,
and I can prove it
hes lying
Ainsley? How do you prove it?
I will bring up the facts.
I have the paperwork.
I can show the facts of what
happened,
and this is not true what
essaying
its rhetoric,
Jason, Goebbels one time said a
litel. It big enough, tell it
often enough and it becomes
truth
thats. What Colin Kaepernick is
doing right now, with this case
Steve Maureen. I know you wrote
a book about this.
I want to hear your evidence, but
first tell the folks at home
what happened to your husband on
that day.
On December 9th one thousand nine hundred and eighty one, my
husband stopped a blue
Volkswagen for going the wrong
way down a street at 13th and
locust
when he called for some reason
when he stopped the Volkswagen
he called for a backup.
Then he approached the car.
There was someone in the car by
the name of William Cook.
William Cooke was Mumias
brother,
William Cooke handed my husband,
a license which was not his
license, and my husband asked him
to step out of the car
when he stepped out of the car,
William Cooke punched, my husband,
in the face
my husband turned around hit
him on the side of the head with
his flashlight and started to
frisk him
at that time. Mumia who was
hitting in a hack taxicab.
He was sitting in a taxicab
across the way ran across the
alleyway shot. My husband in the
back,
my husband, swung around shot
him in the chest, fell to the
ground, lost his gun and at that
time Mumia emptied his gun into
my house and leaned. Over and
within fourteen inches of my husbands
head between his eyes, he shot
him. He executed him
Ainsley, you have the evidence
and Mumias brother was there.
His own brother was there and to
this day his brother hasnt said
someone else. Did it.
There were four eyewitnesses
that saw what happened that
night that came forth.
The police back up showed up
within seventy seconds of the murder,
so
Ainsley. Normally you shoot a
cop. You go to prison either you
get the death penalty or go to
prison for life.
He was already convicted in
court.
So why are all these celebrities
backing him now and why has he
been on death row for so many
years and wasnt he supposed to
die and then they changed it to
a life sentence?
Why did that happen?
That was on a technicality
that they let him off and gave
him life without possibility of
parole.
The case can go on and on.
I cant explain it all on tv, but
he did get on.
He got off on a technicality
life without possibility of
parole,
and he has been in prison ever
sense.
He ended up getting help. Hepc WH
was in in prison, solitary
confinement.
He got Hepc, which is
interesting.
I dont know how he got it.
However, our text dollars Gilead
gave him ninety thousand dollars for Hepc for
him which our tax dollars paid
for
this man has been coddled all
his life,
all his life
Ainsley. He wrote a book and
made a lot of money too. On your
husbands, death.
We are out of time, but im so
sorry for your loss.
Thank you for speaking out.
I wish you all the best.
I wish this were not the path
for you.
I know you wanted kids and
wanted to buy a house in the.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-20.