{"id":39252,"date":"2014-01-11T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39252"},"modified":"2014-01-12T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:29:36","slug":"law-enforcements-legit-grip-with-the-latest-doj-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39252","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement’s Legit Gripe with the Latest DOJ Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few days, I’ve been watching the debate over Debo Adegbile’s nomination as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. I’m glad I waited to write something about it, because our buddy, John Bruhns<\/strong>, an Iraq veteran who used to protest the war but grew out of that to be a good conservative and an advocate for national security, sent us this piece he wrote, since he was pretty sure that his editors at the Huffington Post wouldn’t touch it. <\/p>\n

Over the past few days, the nomination of Debo Adegbile to a powerful post in the Department of Justice – assistant attorney general for the civil rights division – has been gaining a groundswell of support<\/a> from civil rights advocates, union leaders, politicians, and even a top corporate executive<\/a>. On the face of it, the popularity of this choice makes sense: the 12-year veteran<\/a> of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund appears to check every box for leading an office that enforces anti-discrimination laws, having argued twice in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases about voting rights. Born to an Irish mother and Nigerian father, Adegbile<\/a>, who grew up poor in New York City, seems to be every progressive’s dream. He was even a child actor on “Sesame Street<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But there is one huge factor that disqualifies him for the job: decades after Mumiu Abu-Jamal was tried and convicted of the heinous murder of a police officer on the streets of Philadelphia, Adegbile stepped in and took up his cause, finding a legal technicality to get his death sentence commuted to life in prison.<\/p>\n

According to The Hill<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Abu Jamal was sentenced to death, but appeals of the sentencing kept his case in the courts for much of the next three decades.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Abu Jamal avoided the death penalty, after the courts ordered that he should be resentenced after flaws during his original 1982 trial. Prosecutors then announced they would no longer seek the death penalty against him.<\/p>\n

The NAACP legal defense fund represented Abu Jamal during the resentencing. From 2001-2013, Adegbile held various leadership roles in the fund.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Showing poor judgment at best, Adegbile jumped on the bandwagon of Hollywood actors, writers, news authors and commentators who hold up the radical Black Panther supporter as some kind of innocent martyr. This cold-blooded murderer shot the young police officer Daniel Faulkner at close range, including once in the face from 12-inches away. He was later overheard saying, “I shot the mother_cker and I hope he dies.” The evidence of his guilt was overwhelming. And yet this brutal execution of Faulkner has somehow turned Abu-Jamal into an international cause celebre. Stephen Vittoria’s documentary<\/a>,
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