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There is nothing they can do to make this better,” she said. Members of MOVE held an event Saturday after the roller-coaster revelations of this week. Thursday s news that the city s medical examiner s office had disposed of the remains in 2017 led Mayor Jim Kenney to apologize to the Africa family and ask the city s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, to resign. Some remains were kept by academics at the Penn Museum and Princeton; others were apparently stored in a cardboard box marked MOVE at the medical examiner s office. The victims family members are still confused. One minute they’re talking about they have the bones, the next minute they’re talking about they cremated them, said another MOVE member Saturday. ....
MOVE denounces museum’s desecration of children’s remains By Betsey Piette posted on April 26, 2021 Philadelphia At an emotion filled press conference April 26, MOVE members strongly denounced the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Princeton University for holding the remains of family members killed in the 1985 police bombing of their home. From left: Carlos Africa, Janet Africa, Pam Africa (standing), Janine Africa, Consuela Africa and Eddie Africa. Credit: Joe Piette News that Penn Museum was in possession of the remains first aired in an opinion piece by Abdul-Aliy Muhammad in the Philadelphia Inquirer April 21. The bones were given to UPenn forensic anthropologist Alan Mann by the Philadelphia Medical Office for analysis. Mann subsequently transferred to Princeton University, taking the bones with him. ....
What Is MOVE And How Did Their Years-Long Battle With Philadelphia Police End In Tragedy? MOVE, a revoluntionary back-to-nature group formed in the 1970s, had not one but two shocking and deadly encounters with Philadelphia police. Members of MOVE, a cult founded by John Africa, avoid being arrested as they gather in front of their house in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo: Getty Images Racial injustice has taken center stage in 2020 but a new HBO documentary highlights another raciallycharged battle between Philadelphia police and a Black revolutionary, back-to-nature group that began nearly 50 years ago. The years long-battle between the group MOVE and authorities left one police officer dead and sent nine of the group’s members, known as the MOVE 9, to prison for third-degree murder after a 1978 attempt to evict the group from their Philadelphia home. It culmin ....