Bombing Of Panthers Essay

Police raids and the secret efforts of the FBI counterintelligence program added to the tendency of Panther leaders suspecting the reasons of black militants who didn’t completely agree with the party's strategy or strategies. The FBI launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to stop "a coalition of militant black nationalist groups" and the rise of a "black messiah" "who might unify and electrify this violence-prone elements,” by doing this they were targeting the Panthers. “COINTELPRO up to the point of its official demise seems to aptly sum up the Bureau’s history and represents “one of the sordid episodes in the history of American law enforcement,” as Senator Frank Church once put in,” says the book “Agents of Repression.” However, there is no real evidence that it ever really ended. There isn’t and never has been any other substantive basis for the FBI’s existence. On September 1968 Huey Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to starting from two to fifteen years in prison. That December, two Chicago leaders of the party, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, were killed in a police raid. According to the party's attorney, twenty-eight Panthers were killed by the end of the decade. During this time, Newton was still in jail, his sentence was reversed on appeal in 1970. Many other Panthers elsewhere were facing long prison sentences because of intense …show more content…
By the mid-1970s, most Panther veterans, including Seale and Cleaver, had deserted or were excluded from the group, and Newton, being faced with several criminal charges, run away to Cuba. When Huey came back to the U.S and lived in West Oakland. He completed his doctorate but also became heavily involved in the drug scene. He was a very intelligent man, but because of a bad drug deal he was shot dead in the summer of