Today in 1969, the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Chicago Police Department planned and implemented the assassination of #FredHampton. He was the Chairman of the The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. His family were later awarded a million dollar civil action lawsuit for the COINTELPRO assassination. The proletarian revolutionary was 21. He would have been 72 today. | We Act Radio

Yesterday marked the 47th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorne

52 years ago, Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party was murdered by police in his bed. But his story is about much more than the raid that took his life. | Vox