Curtosy SFBAYVIEW
40 YEARS AGO DEC. 4 1969 A PROMINANTE BLACK PANTHER PARTYCHAIRMAN OF CHICAGO PARTY LEADER FRED HAMPTON WAS ASSASINATED BY THE CHICAGO PIGS.
“On Dec. 4, 1969, 40 years ago, Chicago police led by Cook County prosecutor Edward Hanrahan as part of an FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) operation stormed into Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton’s apartment at 4:30 a.m. Armed with shotguns, handguns and a .45 caliber machine gun and guided by a floor plan of the apartment provided by an informant, the police killed Defense Captain Mark Clark and critically injured four other Panthers.
They gunned their way through the apartment into Fred Hampton’s bedroom. There he lay sleeping, having been drugged earlier by an FBI informant. As he lay there, the cops stood over him and put two bullets in his brain, at close range.” – Props Online Bayview National Black Newspaper
