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Part One: The Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers

Behind the Bastards

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Bobby Seal and Huey P. Newton's Autobiography

After the Watts riots, Bobby Seal and Huey P. Newton decided to create a new organization together called SSAC. They organized protests against the draft for black students because they felt that like without sort of being treated equally, they shouldn't be expected to fight for the countryWithout consenting to in the same way. But before this project could really get off the ground, Huey and Bobby wound up running straight into some police brutality of their own. On March 17, 1966, at around 9 p.m., Bobby and Huey were hanging out in Berkeley, walking to the University of California campus. A police officer arrived right as Bobby was reciting an anti-war poem he liked

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