S.F. Newspapers Wrapped in Tracts Calling for Release of Condemned Man
Someone, apparently a covert team of activists, got into news racks all over the Bay Area and wrapped thousands of San Francisco Chronicles with a four-page mock newspaper demanding freedom for a convicted killer.
Printed in a style and typeface nearly identical to the Chronicle’s, the “San Francisco Chomical” featured anti-death penalty articles, photographs of Mumia Abu-Jamal, graphics about racial bias in capital cases and an announcement of a Saturday march and rally to stop the execution.
No one has claimed responsibility for delivering the “Chomicals” to news racks early Monday.
“We’ve hired private investigators to try to find out” who did it, said Randy Schuller, security manager for the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, which circulates the Chronicle and the Examiner.
“We didn’t think of it, but we wish we had,” said Jeff Mackler, director of Mobilization to Free Mumia in San Francisco.
Supporters of Abu-Jamal contend that he was wrongly convicted of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Their claims have failed to sway courts in Pennsylvania.
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