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...conspiracy afoot in the classic sense, however, senior law-enforcement officials do feel that there is a kind of climate of incitement that is new. Since many of the incidents have taken place in black ghettos, some top cops point to the influence of the Black Panthers. Says a top law-enforcement official: "This isn't a case of some Panther big shot telling the party chapters that the time has come to go after the cops. There is no overall coordination of the shootings. There isn't any doubt, though, that the sniping is the direct result...
...sources of irritation between cops and ghetto residents is the tough treatment that blacks often get from the police. Last week, after the Philadelphia police deaths, police raided three Black Panther headquarters and at one of them forced the male blacks to strip on the sidewalk for a search. To ease tension during large-scale demonstrations, John Spiegel of Brandeis suggests a variation of the student marshal system used to cool the crowds during the May 1 pro-Panther rally on the New Haven Green. If neighborhood marshals were put to good use where confrontation is likely, they might...
...fleeting hour last week, it seemed more like a reunion and a radical talkfest than a murder trial. In an empty New Haven, Conn., jury room, Black Panther Chairman Bobby Scale met and embraced his old friend, Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton. Court proceedings and stints in jail had kept them apart for nearly three years. Now Newton was present as a spectator, and Scale as a witness in the trial of Black Panther Lonnie McLucas. Said Newton of the encounter: "It was beautiful. I had heard Bobby was fasting, but he looked like he was putting on weight...
Confession. Yet the presence of the nationally prominent Panther leaders almost obscured the McLucas case. It was ostensibly in McLucas' behalf that Scale, whose own trial will come later, voluntarily appeared as the last defense witness. "The Chairman," as Scale repeatedly referred to himself, was of little help to McLucas...
...crime, George Sams Jr. and Warren Kimbro, implicating McLucas in the torture and murder of Rackley. Markle also has a confession from McLucas made to an FBI agent that he fired the second shot into Rackley. Both Sams, a former bodyguard for Stokely Carmichael, and Kimbro, a Connecticut Panther leader, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Sams' testimony named Scale as the man who gave the murder order...