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AMERICAN MUSLIM MEDIA WATCH - 5/25/2000

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AL-AMIN TAPE SHOWS OFFICERS SEARCHED FOR WOUNDED GUNMAN

By: Joshua B. Good, The Atlanta Constitution, 5/25/2000, Page C1

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Excerpts:

"Could there be another suspect in the slaying of Fulton Deputy Ricky
Kinchen?

"A sheriff's dispatch tape from the night Kinchen and his partner
Aldranon English were shot reveals fellow deputies searched for a
wounded gunman and surrounded an abandoned house in Atlanta's West End
where blood was found.

"English thought he shot his assailant. And minutes after the
shooting, a man was seen bleeding and begging for a ride five blocks
from the shooting scene, recently released Atlanta police records
show.

"The only person charged in the case is Jamil Abdullah Al - Amin,
formerly known as H. Rap Brown. Federal agents caught him in Alabama
four days after the shooting. Al-Amin had not been shot and had no
wounds.

"Al-Amin says he's innocent, and the case is a government
conspiracy...

"...The dramatic tape of Fulton County Sheriff's Department radio
traffic is filled with discrepancies from deputies who showed up after
the shooting was over. Most important, the tape records the account of
the state's best witness --- English..."

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