![]() ![]() Given revelations about the illegal COINTELPRO program and documents associated with the killings, many scholars now consider Hampton's death an assassination at the FBI's initiative. federal government, Cook County, and the City of Chicago each paid one-third to a group of nine plaintiffs. It was resolved in 1982 by a settlement of $1.85 million (equivalent to $5.61 million in 2022) the U.S. Ī civil lawsuit was later filed on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of Hampton and Clark. In January 1970, the Cook County Coroner held an inquest the jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides. ![]() During the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. Law enforcement sprayed more than 100 gunshots throughout the apartment the occupants fired once. In December 1969, Hampton was drugged, shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack. It tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers organization. In 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified Hampton as a radical threat. A Marxist–Leninist, Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying, "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” As a progressive African American, he founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. He came to prominence in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. (Aug– December 4, 1969) was an American activist. Assassination ( gunshot wounds) Ĭhairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Partyįredrick Allen Hampton Sr. ![]()
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