Word: rackley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police told reporters on the day of the arrests that the New Haven Panthers had kidnapped and murdered Rackley because they suspected him of being a police informer. Police also said that the body showed evidence of having been beaten, tortured and burned with cigarettes...
...August, George Sams was arrested in Toronto. At this point the case takes on a much more serious turn. Sams has so far proved to be the most important-and problematic-prosecution witness. Immediately after his arrest, he signed an affidavit implicating Bobby Seale in the death of Alex Rackley. On August 19, in Oakland, Bobby Seale was arrested on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
Since 1968, Scale has crisscrossed the country speaking to groups of Panthers and white radicals, and helping to organize new chapters of the Party. On May 19, 1969, his travels brought him to Yale for a speaking engagement. This is where the late Alex Rackley, George Sams, and the electric chair entered his life...
...George Sams seems to be the prosecution's only link to Bobby Scale. At a bail hearing for Seale in April, Sams testified that Scale had entered a room where other defendants were holding Rackley and asked "Is that a pig?" When the other Panthers replied that it was a pig, Sams said. Scale then replied, "what do you do with a pig? Off the [deleted]." He testified that he, Lonnie McLucas and Warren Kimbro, had driven Rackley to a place near the river. Then, Sams said, "Kimbro shot him first. Lonnie hit him second...
...killed by police agents. Charles Garry told reporters, "We have every reason to believe and we intend to prove that Rackely was murdered by police agents." In an interview published in The Black Panther, the Party's official newspaper, published March 21, Seale said, "George Sams killed Alex Rackley... George Sams definitely actually in fact was the one who did kill Brother Alex Rackley, and Brother Alex Rackley was no agent... We've got documented evidence - we can document George Sams's activities and exactly what he did and how he put this stuff together...