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...Black] Panther members have died in clashes with police since Jan. 1, 1968" without giving the source of its information or trying to verify the accuracy of the figure. What prompted the Post apology was an investigative report by Edward Jay Epstein, published last month in The New Yorker. In six months of research, Epstein found that only ten Panther deaths were due to police action, and in at least eight of those cases the police had been provoked in varying degrees before opening fire...
Epstein is a former teaching fellow in Government who, in an article appearing in the February 13 issue of the New Yorker, questioned Garry's long-standing charge that 28 Black Panthers have been killed by the police...
Garry also accused Epstein of prejudicing the cause of his client, Bobby Seale, and Seale's co-defendant, Ericka Huggins, who are now on trial for their lives in New Haven in connection with the death of Alex Rackley, discussed in the New Yorker article...
...Yorker has had the story since November; for all I knew the trial would be over by the time they decided to run it. Nothing in the article reflects on Seale himself. Besides, Garry is using the wrong tactics. He could have gotten a very quick trial for Seale if he had settled for a mostly white middle-class jury. As for Ericka Huggins, I think she's very much mixed up in Rackley's death," Epstein continued...
...Asked about the recent article in The New Yorker in which Edward J. Epstein. teaching fellow in Government, denied the existence of a Federal conspiracy to kill Panthers. Garry called Epstein "a congenital liar who is either an agent or a tool...