Rep. Eric Swalwell urged the release of former Black Panther and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal in a 1999 op-ed for his college newspaper, according to a report. Swalwell, the California Democrat who is among several candidates looking to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom, wrote the column under the byline “The Radically Poetic,” according to the Daily Mail. “America, it’s time to wake up,” Swalwell wrote while a student at Campbell University in Harnett County, NC. “I encourage