“On the morning of April 2, 1969, more than 150 NYPD officers executed a mass arrest of sixteen members of the New York [Black Panther] chapter. By 11 am, before most of them had appeared before a judge, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan was standing before the media, reciting the spectacular indictment. Twenty-one Panthers were charged with plotting to kill police officers and bomb police stations, rail stations, department stores, government offices, and the Bronx Botanical Gardens.
According to former prosecutor Peter L. Zimroth, the indictment was explicitly worded to paint the Panthers as terrorists, disseminate prejudicial information to potential jurors, and “legitimize warlike responses by the state.”
#History #BlackPanthers
https://spectrejournal.com/revolution-is-illegal/
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