Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Mumia Abu-Jamal  (Insert photo: Wikipedia CC) By Michael Rubinkam associated press POTTSVILLE, Pa.  — Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal was rushed to a hospital to be treated for complications from diabetes, according to family members and supporters who asserted Tuesday that the state prison system has been providing him with substandard medical…

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Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Fun Safe Philly Summer hosted the second annual Teen Summer Job & Opportunities Fair at Temple University. The fair offered paid and volunteer summer opportunities to youth aged 16 to 24. More than 300 students from schools across the city were invited to attend the fair, where they students attended…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey holds a newly released report during a news conference Monday, March 23, 2015, in Philadelphia. Poor training has left Philadelphia police officers with the mistaken belief that fearing for their lives alone is justification for using deadly force, the Justice Department said Monday in a review of the city’s…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Otis Byrd. The Claiborne county  coroner confirmed that the man found hanging from a white sheet Thursday March 19 , 2015 was Otis Byrd, an ex-convict reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections) By Emily Wagster…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This photo (insert) provided by the St. Louis County Police Department on Sunday, March 15, 2015 shows Jeffrey Williams. Williams, 20, is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action in connection with the shooting of two police…

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ABOVE PHOTO;  Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on her nomination. Lynch defended President Barack Obama’s decision to shelter millions of immigrants from deportation though they live in the country illegally but she said they have no right to citizenship…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This undated photo (insert) provided by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections shows Tony Robinson. Robinson, an unarmed black 19-year-old, was fatally shot Friday, by Matt Kenny, a white police officer, the Madison police chief said Saturday, March 7, 2015.  (AP Photo/Wisconsin Department of Corrections) Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — The fatal shooting of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Attorney General Eric Holder (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)   By Jim Salter ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday while demonstrators were gathered across the street – an attack the county police chief described as “an ambush” that could easily have killed…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Edmund Pettus Bridge  (United States Library of  Congress Prints and Photographs division) By Nedra Pickler associated press WASHINGTON–For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The nation’s first black president plans a speech Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Darren Wilson By Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department won’t prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias and unconstitutional practices. Federal officials concluded there was…

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