Faulkner’s widow had some pointed words for Goddard: “Shame on them,” she told WCAU-TV.
At the same time a convicted cop killer gave a controversial college commencement address by video Sunday, scores of Philadelphia officers gathered at the murder site of Officer Daniel Faulkner and needed no words to make their feelings clear.
Silent vigil for slain Phila Police Ofc Daniel Faulkner murdered 1981. #MumiaAbuJamal speaking @ VT college via video pic.twitter.com/j4JY1Pcrnf
— Kenneth Moton (@KennethMoton) October 5, 2014
While Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former death row inmate imprisoned for Faulkner’s 1981 murder, encouraged the 20 gathered graduates of Goddard College to ”think about the myriad of problems that beset this land and strive to make it better,” police held a silent vigil honoring Faulkner as well as his widow.
#NOW: @PhillyPolice and the #FOP gathering for vigil honoring Maureen/Dan Faulkner. #Mumia speaking now. @CBSPhilly pic.twitter.com/On12YRce5p
— Steve Patterson (@PattersonCBS3) October 5, 2014
The choice of Abu-Jamal to give the prerecorded address to the school in Plainfield, Vermont, angered police and politicians far and wide. Abu-Jamal was initially sentenced to death for Faulkner’s murder but re-sentenced to life in 2012.
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