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Mural of Slain Officer Daniel Faulkner Dedicated

Officials in Philadelphia have unveiled a mural dedicated to the police officer fatally shot by Mumia Abu-Jamal nearly 33 years ago.

Authorities dedicated a 25-foot tall mural of Officer Daniel Faulkner during a ceremony Monday morning. The mural is painted on the side of the police station Faulkner worked at in the Chinatown section of the city.

His widow thanked the more than 100 people in attendance at the ceremony and called the mural a beautiful tribute to Faulkner.

Faulkner was shot to death by Abu-Jamal on a downtown street in 1981.

Abu-Jamal was convicted for the murder of Faulkner in 1982 and sentenced to death. Prosecutors agreed to reduce his sentence to life imprisonment in 2011.

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