You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.

From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.

My guest, T. Grey Hill is an award-winning documentarian who was born in Pittsburgh, but was raised and resides in Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University, Hill made waves when his

first documentary, Shame of the City, premiered in 2006.

Hill returned in 2010 with a fantastic documentary about police officer Daniel Faulkner's

killer, Mumia Abu Jamal, and the four-decade-long innocence campaign to free the cop killer.

Last month, December 9th, was the 40-year anniversary of Faulkner's murder.

The film The Barrel of a Gun takes its title from Chinese communist leader Mao Zetong's quote,

power grows from the barrel of a gun.

And that seems to be true for Mumia Abu Jamal,

who has amassed supporters such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu,

Nelson Mandela, actor Danny Glover, Alec Baldwin,

Sting, The Musicians Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, and Ed Asner, just to name a few.

As damning as a case as the barrel of a gun makes for Mumia's guilt,

it's not the film that Hill set out to make. In fact, Hill was quoted as saying, I looked into this case. If the evidence had led me to Mumia was innocent or got a raw deal,

I would have shown that. I followed the trail of

truth and it led me down the path where Mumia was guilty, unquote. It is my great pleasure

to welcome Tigray Hill. So I just want to talk about the circumstances of this crime. I don't think I've seen any other

case with these kind of circumstances. So Mummiya's brother is in a disreputable part of town

in Philadelphia. He goes the wrong way up a one-way street, gets pulled over by.

Yes.

Is that correct, Officer Faulkner?

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