Update to this story.
Via Daily Caller:
As a media firestorm erupts over the failed nomination of Mumia abu-Jamal’s former lawyer to head up the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, a similar figure to abu-Jamal was released from jail on Tuesday after serving time for the murder of a Baltimore police officer.
The NAACP praised the release of Marshall “Eddie” Conway, a former Black Panther leader.
“It just shows you that things can come right after a wrong,” Baltimore NAACP President Tessa Hill-Aston told the Baltimore CBS affiliate.
The NAACP fought for the release of Conway, who was convicted in 1970 for the killing of Officer Donald Sager. Sager was gunned down after responding to a domestic disturbance call by three assailants. It was argued in court that Sager was killed in a Black Panther initiatory rite that required the two men that participated to prove their loyalty.