Word: hamptons
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Viciousness. When it was all over, two Panthers were dead, and of the seven others in the apartment, four were wounded. One officer was wounded. The dead were Illinois Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, a downstate leader of the party. The following morning, in a similar raid, ten Chicago tactical-unit cops burst into the South Side apartment of Panther Deputy Defense Minister Bobby Rush and seized a pistol and some ammunition. This time the apartment was empty, and there was no shooting...
State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan defended the raids as necessary "because of the viciousness of the Black Panther Party." But Francis Andrews, a lawyer for the Panthers, charged that Hampton had been "assassinated" by the police. Pictures indicated that Hampton had been shot in bed; the Panthers claimed that he was asleep, the police that he was firing from the bed. Renault Robinson, president of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League, said that, based on evidence at the scene of the shootout, his organization did not believe the official police version of the incident. "We found...
...Fred Hampton's murder and Mark Clark's murder in Chicago this week are not isolated. Messiah said that if you mourn for Fred you should mourn for the rest of them too. And we should. The bloody trail of legalized slaughter stretches all the way from My Lai to Oakland and now to Chicago...
...pigs were out to get Freddie Hampton. The black leadership is the leadership of the revolution that's going to bring America to its knees. The pigs understand this and can't stand to see the movement getting its shit together. We're going to have to show them we can take it and fight back, because if we don't move, the Man will. This is the lesson we've got to learn from Freddie's death." said Jim Reeves, a Weatherman spokesman...
...didn't come to mourn the death of Freddie Hampton, because he wouldn't have wanted us to cry. He would have wanted us to pick up a gun and intensify the struggle. He didn't die in vain, because he knew that if you've got nothing to die for, you've got nothing to live for either." Miss Jones said...