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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4535992" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>WAHHHHHHHH! HE WAS SUCH A SWEET BOY. ANOTHER INNOCENT BLACK MAN KILLED. WAHHHHHHHH!</p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton" target="_blank">Fred Hampton - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p>“Hampton had quickly risen in the Black Panther Party, and his talent as a political organizer was described as remarkable.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11" target="_blank">[11]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12" target="_blank">[12]</a> In 1968, he was on the verge of creating a merger between the BPP and a southside street gang with thousands of members, which would have doubled the size of the national BPP.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11" target="_blank">[11]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12" target="_blank">[12]</a></p><p></p><p>In November 1969, Hampton traveled to California and met with the National BPP leadership at UCLA. They offered him a position on the Central Committee as the chief of staff and asked him to serve as the national spokesman for the BPP. While Hampton was out of town, two Chicago police officers, John J. Gilhooly and Frank G. Rappaport, were fatally shot in a gun battle with Panthers on the night of November 13; one died the next day.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-20" target="_blank">[20]</a> A total of nine police officers were shot; 19-year-old Panther Spurgeon Winter Jr. was killed by police, and another Panther, Lawrence S. Bell, was charged with murder. In an unsigned editorial headlined "No Quarter for Wild Beasts", the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a> urged that Chicago police officers approaching suspected Panthers "should be ordered to be ready to shoot."<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-21" target="_blank">[21]</a></p><p></p><p>The FBI, determined to prevent any enhancement of the BPP leadership's effectiveness, decided to set up an arms raid on Hampton's Chicago apartment. Informant William O'Neal provided them with detailed information about Hampton's apartment, including the layout of furniture and the bed in which Hampton and his girlfriend slept. An augmented, 14-man team of the SAO (Special Prosecutions Unit) was organized for a pre-dawn raid; they were armed with a search warrant for illegal weapons.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11" target="_blank">[11]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12" target="_blank">[12]</a>”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4535992, member: 48469"] WAHHHHHHHH! HE WAS SUCH A SWEET BOY. ANOTHER INNOCENT BLACK MAN KILLED. WAHHHHHHHH! [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton"]Fred Hampton - Wikipedia[/URL] “Hampton had quickly risen in the Black Panther Party, and his talent as a political organizer was described as remarkable.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11'][11][/URL][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12'][12][/URL] In 1968, he was on the verge of creating a merger between the BPP and a southside street gang with thousands of members, which would have doubled the size of the national BPP.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11'][11][/URL][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12'][12][/URL] In November 1969, Hampton traveled to California and met with the National BPP leadership at UCLA. They offered him a position on the Central Committee as the chief of staff and asked him to serve as the national spokesman for the BPP. While Hampton was out of town, two Chicago police officers, John J. Gilhooly and Frank G. Rappaport, were fatally shot in a gun battle with Panthers on the night of November 13; one died the next day.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-20'][20][/URL] A total of nine police officers were shot; 19-year-old Panther Spurgeon Winter Jr. was killed by police, and another Panther, Lawrence S. Bell, was charged with murder. In an unsigned editorial headlined "No Quarter for Wild Beasts", the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune']Chicago Tribune[/URL] urged that Chicago police officers approaching suspected Panthers "should be ordered to be ready to shoot."[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-21'][21][/URL] The FBI, determined to prevent any enhancement of the BPP leadership's effectiveness, decided to set up an arms raid on Hampton's Chicago apartment. Informant William O'Neal provided them with detailed information about Hampton's apartment, including the layout of furniture and the bed in which Hampton and his girlfriend slept. An augmented, 14-man team of the SAO (Special Prosecutions Unit) was organized for a pre-dawn raid; they were armed with a search warrant for illegal weapons.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-agents-repression-66-11'][11][/URL][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#cite_note-we-are-not-216-12'][12][/URL]” [/QUOTE]
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