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Hampton
5th December 2003, 03:59
December 4, 1969 around 4:30am Chicago police entered Fred’s apartment by kicking the front door down and then shooting Mark Clark pointblank in the chest. Clark was sleeping in the living room with a shotgun in his hand. His reflexes responded by firing one shot at the police before he died. That bullet was then discovered to be the only shot fired at the police by the Panthers.

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Their automatic gunfire entered through the walls of Fred and his pregnant girlfriend's room shooting Fred in the shoulder. Two officers entered the bedroom and shot Fred at pointblank in his head to make sure that he was dead, and no longer a so-called menace to society. It has been said that one officer stated, "he's good and dead now."

Gregg York, supervisor in the Chicago FBI office, said, “We expected about twenty Panthers to be in the apartment when the police raided the place. Only two of those black nigger fuckers were killed, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.”

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The officers then dragged Fred's body out of his bedroom and again open fired on the members in the apartment. The Panthers were then beaten and dragged across the street where they were arrested on charges of attempted murder of the police and aggravated assault.

The FBI saw Fred Hampton as a threat to society that needed to be eliminated. They conspired with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and William O'Neal to spy on Fred to give them information about his daily itinerary in order to have O'Neal's felony charges dropped. His job was to serve as a bodyguard of Fred and director of the Chapter's security. He was suppose to notify the FBI of the Panther's apartment floor plan and how many residents lived in the apartment. When the FBI got its information a raid was authorized by the state attorney Hanrahan.

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FBI special agents sent a memo to J. Edgar Hoover stating that "a positive course of action (was) being effected under the counterintelligence program." Aside from giving the FBI a map of the apartment, O’Neal also drugged Fred with Seconal in a glass of Kool Aid to ensure he didn’t wake up in the morning. 1969-1970 O’Neal earned $30,000 as a paid FBI informant, such a low price to sell out your brother.

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When it was over the police pumped 98 rounds into the apartment. In 1972 a quid pro quo arrangement was made which dropped the charges against the Panther survivors. In November 1982, District Attorney Judge John F. Grady determined that there was sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to deprive the Panthers of their civil rights to award the plaintiffs of $1.85 million in damages.

O’Neal committed suicide in Feb. 1990 via the messy expedient of running down an embankment onto Chicago’s Stevenson Expressway and being hit by a taxi.

Fred Hampton Jr. spent 9 years in jail on trumped up charges of arson, he was released on September 14, 2001.

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Links (http://edwardjayepstein.com/archived/panthers6.htm)
Links (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/081.html)
Links (http://www.inpdumchicago.com/freefred.html)
Murder of Fred Hampton Video (http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/murder_fred_hampton.ram)
Wesley Swearigen on the murder of Fred Hampton (http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/fbikill.htm)
50th Birthday Tribute (http://www.mumia.org/wwwboard/messages/1105.html)
Wikipedia Bio(good read) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton)

Editied for more information. Hope some people read it.

Comrade Ceausescu
5th December 2003, 04:53
I have read a good bit about this.I remember becoming so angry that I chucked the book into the wall and starting crying.It was just so horrible.

Hampton
6th December 2003, 17:16
I don't remember the first time I heard his name although I know what there wasn't a large amount of happiness around it. Then you begin to read books about it and digging deeper into it and it makes you so mad because it goes against everything that the government is supposed to mean or what we were taught it is supposed to do, protect its citizens. But then when you learn that they will kill those who strive to make the country a better place in cold blood, it opens your eyes and freaks you out. And you know it's bad when books just mention his name and saying that it's the most outstanding case of COINTELPRO of the system going out to kill a dissenter and they didn't even do a good job it covering it up because we all know who did it.

RedCeltic
7th December 2003, 04:45
Also, after the murder.. The Black Panthers gave a walk through tour of the apartment. People lined up around the block to see the murder scene that was left intact. The reason was that the evidence of the scene was overwhelming proof that Hampton’s killing was in fact a hit, and that Hampton in no way shape or form could have possibly posed a threat that would have warranted the type of force in “self defense” that was used that day.

Eastside Revolt
9th December 2003, 08:33
I love hearing black American revolutionary's speak, it is always so inspiring. Thanx for the documentary on his murder.

And also does anyone know if those police officers involved in his killing were ever killed for it?

Hampton
9th December 2003, 18:32
Not a single officer or anyone at the State's Attorney's office or the FBI ever spent a day in jail for the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Some of the officers involved in the raid are still members of the Chicago Police Department. Thirty years later, Richard M. Daley (Richard J.'s son) is Mayor of Chicago and former Illinois Black Panther Bobby Rush is a member of the United States Congress. In 1999, Rush ran for mayor of Chicago. He lost.

Edward V. Hanrahan who tired to get charges put on those who survived the raid was acquitted (Oct 1972) of conspiring to obstruct justice stemming from a controversial 1969 raid by his police on a Black Panther apartment. But his re-election bid loses to Republican Bernard Carey.

The words "vigilante justice" comes to mind when thinking about the cops that are still on the force....

FistFullOfSteel
10th December 2003, 14:33
they were all corrupted

timegypsy7
19th December 2003, 21:47
This is my first time on this board. The name Fred Hampton caught my eye.

I just saw the documentary about two weeks ago for the first time; but I grew up hearing this story from my dad. Apparently, the doc was outlawed for a while and he saw it underground back in the day.... Now it's easily accessible in your friendly college library. Can't wait to show it in my classes in the next few years... guess I won't be getting tenure...ever...

lostsoul
26th December 2003, 17:34
if u want to read more about simlair things that happened to the panthers read: "war against the panthers" by heuy newton (he's one of the founders of the bank panther party).

although Fred Hampton's death is bad, there are many many more things he speaks about in the book.

boxinghefner
14th December 2006, 00:48
the movie is great - Hampton / Seale were such great speakers