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[BEST OF] The Life and Legacy of Fred Hampton

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Black Panthers' Killing of Fred Hampton

The FBI and the police are lying to you when they say it was a mutual battle. They shot Hampton. They didn't get him the first time. So as you said, they stood over his body, fired two more bullets and knew him to make goddamn sure he was dead. What they did fuck up with though, is that they left that house open for two weeks. And one of the ladies I remember the people that were walking the Black Panthers that were walking them through one of the older Black ladies from the neighborhood came out and she shook her head and she said, you know, this is a northern lynching.

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