Disgusting

Michelle Malkin: rightly calls the following story Disgusting:

"A street in a Paris suburb has been named in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.

'In France, they see him as a towering figure,' said Suzanne Ross, co-chair of the Free Mumia Coalition of New York City, who was part of an April 29 ceremony to dedicate the Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal in the city of St. Denis.

Ross said the street is in the town's Human Rights district, which includes Nelson Mandela Stadium.

Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and member of the Black Panther party, was sentenced to death in 1982 for the shooting of 25-year-old Daniel Faulkner. He has maintained his innocence. His writings and taped speeches have made him a cause celebre among Hollywood activists, foreign politicians and some death-penalty opponents who believe he was the victim of a racist justice system."

Fortunately, near as I can tell, the day his death sentence was commuted to life-without-parole seemingly ended much of the fanfare surrounding his alleged celebrity status. I haven't heard of any new commencement addresses from his cell block, for instance.

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