Black Militant Extradited to Georgia
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the 1960s black militant formerly known as H. Rap Brown, returned to Atlanta on Friday to face charges he killed an Atlanta sheriff’s deputy.
He was being held in the Cobb County Jail in Marietta.
Al-Amin, 56, is accused of fatally shooting Ricky Kinchen and wounding Deputy Aldranon English. The two officers were trying to arrest Al-Amin at his grocery store when the shooting occurred March 16. Al-Amin was captured four days later in Alabama and had opposed extradition back to Georgia.
Defense attorney J.L. Chestnut said they withdrew their objections because the “hysteria” surrounding Al-Amin’s arrest had eased and he now feels “relatively safe going back to Georgia.” Chestnut said his client was ready to return to Georgia, “where the real fight is.”
Chestnut said there had been more emotionalism about Al-Amin than about the convicted Oklahoma City bomber.
“This sort of hysteria did not surround Tim McVeigh,” Chestnut said after the extradition hearing.
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