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...October 28, 1967, Oakland policeman John Frey tried to kill Hu?v Newton. Minister of Defense for the Black Panther Party. Immediately after Hu?v hit the ground, someone, from somewhere, shot and killed John Frey. Newton finally hailed a passing car, and asked to be driven to Kaiser Hospital. Now from Gene Marine's The Black Panthers...
...Newton arrived at Kaiser Hospital wtih four bullet holes in his abdomen and one in his thigh... The hospital refused to treat him until the police arrived, and then, when they did treat him, allowed the ???to an operating table. Although he was shouting in pain for the doctors to case the shackles, the doctor treating him told him to shut up. He insists that at least one cop hit him in his wounded abdomen with a nightstick and that several beat him on the wrists and elsewhere until he passed out from the pain...
...police guards told him that they were going to cut the tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape; then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under the bandage...
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton-Minister of Defense now in prison for manslaughter-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as students at Merritt College in Oakland. Since then Scale has been arrested four times-all four arrests on charges relating to his Black Panther activities on June 8, 1967, on charges of carrying a gun in a state building during a Panther demonstration at the California Statehouse in Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were...
...excellent speaker and organizer, whose efforts all over the West Coast played a large part in gathering public support for the "Free Huey" demonstrations, which, many observers feel, were responsible for the verdict of manslaughter which a predominantly white jury gave in the 1968 trial of Huey Newton (the prosecution had asked for a conviction for first-degree murder, which would have meant the gas chamber...