I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People, a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your name to mine? If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by November 05, 2011, the White House will review it and respond! We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama Administration to take action on a range of issues. If a petition gets enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.
You can view and sign the petition here:
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Initiate investigations with subpoena power for the MOVE 9 and Mumia Abu-Jamal which in the least would award new trials.
Mumia Abu-Jamal and the MOVE 9 have had their civil/humane rights violated. In1997 there was a Federal investigation in Philadelphia- the 39th District Scandal that exonerated 3000 of which Mumia Abu-Jamal should have been included.
Also in 1997, the U.N. Rapporteur Bacre Waly Ndiaye intervened on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal and included Mumia’s case in the Report of Arbitrary Executions (22 January 1998)- a report that includes police brutality in the United States; and Ndiaye raised the concern that in the United States innocent people may be sentenced to death and even executed.
Create a separate Federal entity to investigate claims of police brutality.
