The 1969 Raid That Murdered Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton

[u/AntiBullshyt]

https://www.history.com/news/black-panther-fred-hampton-killing

[u/nukapunk → u/[deleted]]

Giving kids free meals, making sure people in your neighborhood aren't being subject to police brutality, working to get better recreational facilities for his community, organizing free clinics for the community, teaching self defense, helped build alliances in Chicago including the Rainbow Coalition, never killed or even physically hurt anyone but was murdered in his sleep by the police.

Sounds like you have a misunderstanding of what violence is.

[u/nukapunk → u/[deleted]]

COINTELPRO was exactly why people believe this nonsense. Do yourself a favor and read any the party, look at the list of defamations and assassinations against the group before regurgitating that they're terrorists. They never killed anyone and to lump them with the KKK is a tragedy.

[u/nukapunk → u/[deleted]]

First of all. Fred Hampton was not killed in a shootout. Investigation into the FBI raid on Hampton's apartment found that the police had fired between ninety to ninety-nine shots while the Black Panthers in Hampton's apartment fired two, one of which was a shot fired by the death convulsions of Mr. Clark.

Now as for Huey Newton, he was not in a shoot out. He was accosted by police, and told them they had no legal right to stop them. He was insulted, punched and then shot in the stomach. And according to the coroner reports the officer who was killed was stuck by police rounds. Read more about that here: https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/huey-p-newton-trial-1968

As for Eldridge Cleaver, the goal of the ambush was to break Newton out of jail, not as some revenge plot to murder cops.

Read critically and make your own decisions.

[u/nukapunk → u/[deleted]]

That one thing makes everything invalid? One thing that came from declassified documents from the government and coroner reports? I really don't know how else to help.

[u/Ninjazombiepirate → u/[deleted]]

"You don't just get on the fbi radar and infiltrated by doing things the nice way"

Have you ever heard of the red scare?

[u/ArkyBeagle → u/[deleted]]

Still, it's fascinating to look at. From the article:

"“The immediate, violent, criminal reaction of the occupants in shooting at announced police officers emphasizes the extreme viciousness of the Black Panther Party,” said Hanrahan. "

Whee doggies. That's some thick right there.

I don't feel bad for him he was a terrorist and ultra violent person.

Maybe. There's just a whole lot of "on the other hand" style context.

What's fascinating about the article is - they call out COINTELPRO whilst never mentioning COINTELPRO's mission - the KGB.

Because of the limitations of information use in counterintel, it's really down to "did any members of the BPP have contact with the KGB", and the answer is "yes". The KGB identified them as "allies" and acted accordingly.

That's all Hoover needed.

[u/morebuffs → u/ArkyBeagle]

They used cointelpro for every group from the kkk to communist groups to the bund and many many others. They were targeted because of their terrorist ways of doing things. Sure their intention was good but their methods were brutal.

[u/ArkyBeagle → u/morebuffs]

It's really hard to say. Even now, the facts are hard to get hold of.

The whole "copwatching" thing was pretty bad, but you get why they did it. Not... the best idea especially at the time.

[u/morebuffs → u/ArkyBeagle]

It is indeed very facinating. Kamala Harriss father was involved in the founding of them before they turned to vigilantes and fear mongers. They were just in the intentions they just strayed from the path of good.

[u/Agent14557 → u/morebuffs]

Source? Her father was a Jamaican student, was he not?

[u/Senior-Path2710 → u/[deleted]]

Throughout the history of this country black leaders have been the villains and in some cases killed and murdered. It doesn’t really seem to matter if they “lived by the sword” or not. They were harassed by LEO and FBI alike. And Hoover abused his position on a regular basis so being on his radar doesn’t make a person a criminal. It usually was a person’s community work that caught attention. Hampton was a socialist too so that made the government crazy. And he appealed to all poor races in his community. Can’t have poor people banding together because it makes it difficult to control them. Terrorist is what they want you to see in history. It was a turbulent time ripe for a leader of the people and it sure as sh*t wasn’t going to be a young black man from the south side of Chicago. Look how crazy people behaved in 2008 when we elected a young black man from south side Chicago President.