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Part One: The Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers

Behind the Bastards

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The Secret History of Guns

The new black Panthers started doing just this. They would organize armed patrols to follow police officers around and observe them during traffic stops. In February of 1967, a group of them were stopped in a car loaded down with rifles and handguns. Newton told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms. This is me putting my hands up as if I'm holding an actual paper. That's the law.

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