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Black Panthers
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| The party was often targeted by the government. During the Civil Rights era, the FBI’s COINTELPRO program attempted to diminish the party and its motives by using propaganda and infiltration. The police were also known to have blamed the group for numerous assassinations, killings, and other illegal events. The worst of these was on December 4, 1969, when the Chicago Police and the FBI stormed into the home of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Hampton’s friends, who were with him at the time, supposedly had been drugged by an FBI informer William O’Neal. It is not known how this incident happened, but some believed they were given drugs which caused them to fall asleep. At the time of the break in, Fred Hampton was shot and killed, along with his guard Mark Clark. The others were dragged out of the home, beaten, and arrested on counts of assault, which were eventually dropped. In another event, Black Panthers John Huggins and Bunchy Carter were killed at the University of California in Los Angeles, in 1969. A rival Black Power group, US, killed the two men. There were many other terrible incidents with the police, but the Black Panthers still fought for civil rights. The party eventually dissipated but was never forgotten. |
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