ON MONDAY PHILADELPHIA POLICE REMOVED this bronze memorial plaque from the sidewalk on the southeast corner of 13th and Locusts Sts.on the site where Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed by Mumia Abu Jamal in December 1981. Sometime over the weekend following a Center City pro-Mumia rally the plaque had been vandalized by someone who sprayed-painted the words, "Fuck him" across Faulkner's name.

The plaque was cleaned and back in place by Tuesday afternoon.