Fred Simpson

Consequently, seventeen-year-old Hutton was gunned down by Oakland police on April 6, 1968. Bobby Hutton was killed at his home in Oakland, California in a ninety minute shootout with the police, Hutton was unarmed. Although the Black Panther Party addressed situations violently, the purpose of the Panthers was to domiciliate revolution for authentic economic, social, and political equality through gender and color equitably. The Black Panther went on to arm themselves for protection against law enforcements. Newton and Seale believed that the Party could become penetrable with the acquirement of firearms. With this militaristic image, the Panthers were beginning to be scrutinized by the government, the Panthers were well aware of this. Occasionally, policemen would find themselves interrupting or disassemble gatherings of the

Hampton was an influential martyr of the Black Panther Party. Both influenced and changed the civil rights movement,

On the morning of the murder, police arrested Brenton Butler based on the identification by the victim’s husband. For hours to come after that, Butler became the victim of police brutality, a false confession, and unlawful interrogation processes. After being identified as the shooter, Butler was brought into the 10 by 10 interrogation room to be well, interrogated.

      There were many events in the Black Panther Party wither many people that did them. Here are some of them. In 1968 Bobby Seale was charged with inciting riots during a Democratic Party National Convention. While in prison Seale was also charged with the murder of Alex Rackley, a former police officer. The trial was held on May 25th, 1971, but left with a hung jury. The judge ordered all charges to be dropped. Stokely Carmichael was also important to the Panthers. Carmichael was arrested 35 times for his part in the civil rights movement, and eventually left the U.S. for an African country called Guinea. In 69’ Carmichael resigned from The Black Panthers. Huey Newton also had a big impact on the civil rights movement. On October 28th 1967 Huey P. Newton was charged with killing a cop while he was currently in the hospital suffering from a wound. A year went by and it was finally certain that Newton is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. When released Bobby Seale and Huey renounced political violence.

The facts were not at all clear to the Police Officers or the attorneys who will soon face this case. The players involved where many, but to name just a few: William M. Kunstler, a very popular and well-liked lawyer, he represented James Richardson. The Author of the book was the prosecutor in this case; he was young and unprepared to becoming an assistant district attorney for this case. But I do have to add that the work he did performed was excellent, but again William Kunstler he was a well-seasoned attorney.

The Black Panther Party is a self-defense, African American revolutionary party. This party was founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale during the 1960’s. This party was dedicated to combating white oppression, and did so by the use of both peaceful and violent actions. Looking back at the history of the Black Panthers, it can be clearly seen that the peaceful idea of equality for all spawned this group and their violent actions for the main reason that they were willing to do anything to defend their beliefs.

On May 16th, 2010 Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year old Black girl from the east side of Detroit, Michigan was fast asleep at her grandmother’s home when Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team mistakenly entered the residence during a midnight raid. Officer Joseph Weekley discharged a bullet that entered Stanley Jones’ head leaving her body lifeless. Initially, Weekley was charged in connection with Stanley Jones’ death but prosecutors cleared him in 2015, ensuring he would face no repercussions for his negligence that resulted in the premature death of Aiyana Stanley Jones.

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

August 9th 2014, Ferguson Missouri, an unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot, and fatally wounded by a white police officer by the name of Darren Wilson. As a direct result of deciding not to indict Officer Wilson, the black community was out raged! Riots, looting, and damage to businesses soon followed the judge’s ruling. The trial was unlike normal trials which were treated with more expedience in the process, the grand jury in Officer Wilson case met for three months and 25 days. (Buchanan, et. al. 2014)

The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement by gathering African Americans and uniting them together so they can fight for what they believe in. The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King Had failed and any proposed changes to their lifestyle via the ‘traditional’ civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced. The two founders of the Black Panther Party were Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. They preached for a “revolutionary war” but their party was believed to be African-American and they were willing to speak out for all those who were oppressed from whatever minority group. However, the Black Panthers were generally targeted by the FBI and they used dirty tactics such as forging letters to provoke conflict between the BPP’s leaders; organising the murders of BPP leaders initiating a “Black Propaganda” campaign to convince the public that the BPP was a threat to national security. “Carmichael is adamantly against allowing whites into the black liberation movement, explaining whites cannot relate to black experience and have an intimidating effect on blacks." Carmichael is a Black Panther. He did not want whites in the Party because he felt they

<="" a=""> Who was Fred Hampton? Well, you may not know who he is because we don’t learn about people like him in school too often. Fred Hampton was an African-American activist, who was chairman of the Chicago branch of the Black Panther Party. Hampton was assassinated in his sleep during a raid of his apartment carried out by Chicago police officers. He was killed because the FBI saw him as a major threat.

The grand jury decided that there was not enough evidence to indict two Cleveland police officers who were involved in the death of a 12-year old boy. Tamir Rice was shot within second of the officers pulling up to the scene where they were told Rice had a weapon.

April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was killed which was a tragedy. The US and Black Panthers organizations had different philopsy which made them clash among one another. The Counter Intel program intercepted between the two organizations by conducting projects such giving the media false reports

Then, on December 4, 1969, police raided Panther leader Fred Hampton’s apartment in Chicago. Hampton and Mark Clark  were  shot dead. While  4 other Panther members were shot in his apartment, but were only injured. The police raided his bedroom at 4:00 am, and shot him while he was sleeping. Hampton was 21, and Clark was 17 years old.

On the night of April 3, King gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis. Just after 6 p.m. the following day, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and his associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39