Wetherman - What Constituted a Legitimate Target?

What constituted a legitimate target was the topic of sensitive discussions among the leadership. The decision to attack policemen was an unspoken act of solidarity with blacks, especially black panthers who reserved a special hatred for urban police. In our hearts, i think what all of us wanted to be were black panthers, kathy wilkerson recalls. And it was no secret what the panthers wanted to do, which is what the black liberation army did later, and that's kill policemen. It's all they wanted to do. O plus, this was the old days. Things started really changing in the eighties and nineties when crack and gun started flooding the ghettos. N their ranks