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[BEST OF] The Life and Legacy of Fred Hampton

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The FBI and Local Police Work Together to Kill Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton had been on the FBI's Key Agitator Index since his activism in high school with NAACP. In 1968, a guy named Ed Hanrahan was elected to be the Cook County State Attorney and adopted Daly's aggressive stance. He was known for especially targeting non-white youth, black Panthers, and black Panther supporters in the streets of Chicago. And so this floor plan was supplied to the FBI by the informant who then passed it to the Cook County Sheriff's Office the day before Hampton was assassinated. The FBI on the Cook CountySheriff's Office to murder Fred Hampton and at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover and his national anti-civil rights initiatives.

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