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Last week's maelstrom of looting and arson swirled past Oakland, Calif., leaving its hate-filled ghettos almost unscathed. But Oakland's police were deeply embroiled in a bitter private race feud of their own. Ranged against them was a strutting band of hyper-militants styling themselves the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers, armed and angry, are defiantly demanding a facedown...
Routine police procedure provided the invitation to bloodshed. Two patrolmen investigating a parked car in a West Oakland slum were sent reeling by shotgun pellets. While they radioed for help, eight Negroes sprinted for a run-down frame house on 28th Street. For the next 90 minutes, they traded shots with police. A tear-gas cannister set a small fire. There was a cry of surrender from the dwelling, where walls and windows were splintered by more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching...
With a membership of fewer than 150 activists, Oakland's Panthers are far from such feats, although trouble often follows them. Armed Panthers invaded California's state assembly last spring to protest a tough new gun law; Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton, 26, is in jail awaiting trial for killing an Oakland policeman; Chairman Bobby Seale, 31, was convicted last week of illegal possession of weapons, and Cleaver, who has spent 12 of his adult years in prison for narcotics and assault convictions, was being held under guard in a hospital as a parole violator...
...Panthers are undeterred. Cradling shotguns, they ride the streets behind patrol cars, stepping forward, law book in hand, to advise arrested Negroes of their rights. Hatred of law officers is an article of faith, and Oakland's 645 police, only 19 of them Negroes, reciprocate; in the lexicon of Panther "Black Papers," all Oakland cops are pigs...
...CLEVELAND, OAKLAND--The Indians have Sam McDowell, but little hitting; the Athletics have a new city...