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...about Alex Rackley's situation. State's Attorney Markle considered McLucas' failure to do something, along with the three actions which he admitted performing, proof of his complicity in a plot to murder Rackley; tree likelihood of his explanation depends on the context in which one sees the Black Panther Party, Lonnie McLucas and George Sams...
Alex Rackley was supposedly murdered for being a police informer. There is no other evidence of Black Panthers ever harming a supposed informer. It is recorded Panther policy that when an informer is discovered he is expelled from the Party and his picture is published in the Party newspaper. Lonnie McLucas knew this. He testified that the morning of the torture session, when he boiled water at Sams' order, he hoped that Sams intended the boiling water as an empty threat and was shocked to see it actually used. My surmise is that during the following three days, while busy...
There were not many alternatives open to Lonnie McLucas that I can imagine. He could not have called the police; police tend to enter Panther offices shooting. He could not have left New Haven himself without abandoning his political life and the woman he loved. He could not have acquired a gun and challenged Sams without endangering himself and whoever else was present. He could perhaps have challenged Sams anyway, or contacted national headquarters and reported Sam's actions, asking for help and advice. That he did not do so, that he thought of no other alternative for action, probably...
...Three Panther women. Rose Smith, Peggy Hudgins and Ericka Huggins, are in jail in Connecticut. There seems to be no evidence against Rose Smith and Peggy Hudgins (who suffers severely from arthritis and who still has not been allowed to see a doctor of her own choice) except their occasional presence in the Kimbro apartment and their knowledge that Rackley had been maltreated. These facts obviously do not necessarily mean complicity in a plot to murder Rackley. Ericka Hudgins' voice is on the tape recording Sams ordered made of the torture session; this does not seem to be proof...
George Edwards is the other New Haven Panther still jailed. The extent of Edwards' participation, according to all testimony so far, is one visit to the Kimbro apartment at the conclusion of the torture session. George Edward's wife attended court almost every day. A large, placid woman, she waited in line with other spectators and matter-of-factly told stories about her 7-month-old baby, born while her husband was in jail, whomhe has been able to see only a few times. She mentioned that she had been told the state has to find something against Edwards after...