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...scorn heaped on the original demand by a vast majority of those designated as beneficiaries. Many welfare recipients said that they would refuse to take any food paid for with "blood money." Chavez sent a message to the Hearsts that "my prayers are with you." Leftists from Black Panther Leader Huey Newton to Actress Jane Fonda condemned the S.L.A.'s use of violence as damaging to the radical cause. Some too conveniently forgot the New Left's more-than-occasional condoning of violence a few years ago. Yet most seemed to agree that the S.L.A.'s demand was as illogical...
...SURPRISING FEATURE of the Panther case was not that the police had perpetrated such a slaughter. Edward V. Hanrahan (Harvard Law, '48), then State's Attorney for Cook County, had declared war on Chicago street gangs soon after he was elected in 1968. The Black P. Stone Nation on the South Side was the largest. It had several thousand members, and was turning from traditional gang activities to organizing for political and economic action. The group posed a threat to Mayor Daley's control of ghetto votes and became a prime target for Daley's machine. The Black Panthers, despite...
...Black Panther raid may have begun the dismantling of the Daley machine. Michael J. Arlen largely ignores the complex political consequences of the case in his little book on Hanrahan's trial. But An American Verdict is a very effective novelistic piece of reporting in which the trial becomes a symbol of the modern American city...
...politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...
...POLICE who shot up the Panther headquarters were not so embarrassed as the mumbling commander. Just after the Panther incident, Sgt. Groth, who lead the raid told reporters his men had called for a "cease-fire" but the Panthers wouldn't agree. Groth claims a voice from the shadows shouted back, "Shoot is out!" The police, he said, "had no choice but to return fire." And the police stuck to their story, even in face of clear-cut ballistic evidence...