the shoot-first-ask-questions-later raid, police
* fired at least ninety-eight rounds into the apartment. Illinois chairman
* Fred Hampton and Peoria chairman Mark Clark were killed.
*
* An FBI informant gave the bureau specific information about where
* Hampton was probably sleeping, and a detailed floor plan of the house
* which the special squad used during its raid.
*
* Thirteen years later, in November 1982, District Court Judge John F.
* Grady determined that there was sufficient evidence of an FBI-led
* conspiracy to deprive the Panthers of their civil rights, and awarded
* the plaintiffs $1.85 million in damages.
: 5/30/97 MSNBC
:
: After more than a quarter of a century in prison, a Black Panther
: activist has won the right to a new trial. A judge ruled there had
: been prosecutorial misconduct. The judge overturned the conviction
: when it was disclosed the government prosecutors withheld critical
: evidence:
:
: o They never said the informer was working with and paid by
: the FBI.
:
: o A former FBI agent also agrees with his alibi: that he was
: in the Black Panther HQ at the time of the murder. That the
: FBI knew this because they were monitoring the HQ.
:
: o And the jury never knew the eyewitness, who has since died,
: had misidenti
