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Part Two: The Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers

Behind the Bastards

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Are We the Baddest Moment?

Fred Hampton formed the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers. FBI informant William O'Neill was sent in to infiltrate it and he was good at his job. He built an electric chair for the Panthers to use to torture informers, which was disassembled on Fred Hampton's orders. The police were left with exactly one option: cold-blooded murder.

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