Having kids in elementary schools write get-well cards is usually a great lesson in compassion for young minds.
Marylin Zunig, a teacher at Forest Street School in Orange, New Jersey, had her third-grade students write get-well letters to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal because he was sent the hospital with diabetes related issues recently.
Richard Costello, political coordinator for the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, called the letters alarming and outrageous on Fox News, adding all the teachers involved should be fired.
"Furthermore all the parents who have children in that school system need to reevaluate that involvement, because these children are now placed in danger by the very people charged with their education," Costello said.
Former Black Panther Abu-Jamal is now sixty years old the former death-row inmate is now serving life for murdering officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
Advocates claim that Abu-Jamal has been provided with sub-standard medical care while in prison, and say that he is in there in the first place because of a corrupt criminal justice system.
Amnesty International has maintained that Abu-Jamal's trial was "manifestly unfair" and failed to meet international fair trial standards. Abu-Jamal has gardnered support by writing and speaking on the radio from death row. He has been the subject of books and movies and his facebook, which has over 100,000 followers, wrote out this today:
“The rabid and revolting comments from the foolish police and their supporters, all mouthpieces for the ruling forces of this society who want to silence and kill Mumia’a voice of truth, are desperate cries. They see that they have not been able to kill Mumia, much as they’ve tried and are trying still, and they have not been able to silence this amazing, never stopping movement.”