All language subtitles for The.Murder.Of.Fred.Hampton.1971.1080p.WEBRip.x264.AAC-[YTS.MX]

I found this man laying,

with his head roughly

the center of the bed,

his body coming back like this.

His two hands were laying

over the... the bed like this,

and just off,

or right below

his, uh, right hand,

was a .45 automatic.

Just a short way away from

his left hand was a shotgun.

I didn't know if he was...

uh, how bad he was injured,

so I picked up...

I grabbed him by the left wrist,

and I pulled him out into...

or onto the door, which

had been used as a barricade.

I then backed off again.

- I'm the Deputy Chairman
- Of the state of Illinois

Black Panther Party,

Fred Hampton.

- I have the pledge tonight
- To introduce

- who I believe is
- One of the baddest motherfuckers

in the world...

a man that did something

that a lot of us

oughta be very glad that he did.

He was a part of making

the only party which exists

in the United States today

that represents the people.

As a matter of fact,

he was one-half.

- Him and Huey P. Newton started
- Out in 1966.

Sometimes I think where

some of us were in 1966.

- I think what we would've said
- If we'd heard

- about some niggers
- Going out in the street,

- talking about sheriffs and guns,
- Fighting all them policemen,

- because we didn't know
- They was pigs,

out there in the streets.

- -Right on.
- -Right on.

- Hampton: And I think I'm
- Speaking for the whole party

of the state of Illinois...

I know I am...

- ...when I say that we love
- Huey P. Newton.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- -We love Eldridge Cleaver.
- -Right on!

-We love Bobby Hutton.

-Right on!

We love the Black Panther Party.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- And we love
- Chairman Bobby Seale.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- We love them
- Because they was the first ones

to took a stand against

capitalism and racism

- and said that we are fighting
- Till the end.

- We said, "We'll join the line
- Somewhere, motherfucker,

- if you try to pass us,
- We'll blow your brains out."

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- They was the first ones that
- Came through with the program

- that was initiated for the, uh,
- For the benefit of the people.

- All those things that I named
- And reasons why we love them

are reasons that make

it beneficial to us.

But let me simply say when

I'm introducing Brother Bobby

that we love him

because he loves the love.

Chairman Bobby Seale.

Seale: Right on!

Right on.

Alright.

We here for some

jive conspiracy.

You know what we gonna do?

We are going to

defend ourselves.

Because Huey P. Newton said,

that power...

power is the ability

to define phenomena

and make it act

in a desired manner.

Power is the ability

to define phenomena

- and make it act
- In a desired manner.

What kind of phenomena?

Social phenomena.

What is the social phenomena?

- Black people, Mexican American,
- Any kind of people,

begin to learn that the social

phenomena is that, in fact,

- U.S. racist, decadent,
- Capitalist,

imperialistic America

is a phony state.

That a phony state exists here,

- that these pigs
- Are doing nothing

- but protecting
- The avaricious businessman

and the demagogic politician,

protecting the exploitative

system that they got going.

That, in fact, we are tired

of it, we are sick of it.

- You've been brutalizing
- The Black people.

- You been murdering
- And lynching them.

Black people are tired of it.

- Black people are the vanguard of
- The revolution all of a sudden,

and if phenomena correct also,

but we are concerned

with that social phenomena.

- We are concerned
- With that exploitation.

We are concerned with the

oppression that Black people

- and all other peoples
- In the world,

- who are suffering the same
- Common oppression

that we are suffering today.

The thing is that we have

the ability to define it.

So if we have the ability

to define it,

the only next thing to do

is get organized.

Get organized.

So when a pig walks up to you,

or a pig get too jive

with the people,

- you'll be so organized,
- You'll be learning some tactics,

- you'll be learning
- Some revolutionary principles,

- you'll be having some guns
- Hid out somewhere,

you'll have

some proper tactics.

That when the pig

get to jiving with you,

the pig is wrong.

- You whip your guns out on him,
- Blow him away,

and then you have the ability,

in fact you have made that

pig act in a desired manner.

Seale: But for what?

But for what?

- For a new system, brothers.
- We need a new system.

The people need a new system.

I sat yesterday afternoon

next to Bobby Seale,

while he said that

a federal marshal

tried to ram

a 4-inch piece of cloth gauze

into his mouth.

Three marshals held his head,

one marshal held his nose

so that he couldn't breathe,

and a fifth marshal attempted

to press against his mouth,

with all his weight,

this gauze

that ultimately resulted

in Bobby bleeding profusely

around the mouth and the lips

as they tried to jam

this piece of object

into his mouth to silence him.

I'm so thirsty for revolution.

I'm so crazy about the people.

We're gonna stand together.

We're gonna have a Black army,

a Mexican American army,

and a line to solidarity.

- We're gonna have some
- Progressive whites.

All of us.

- And we're gonna march
- On this big power structure,

- and we're gonna say,
- "Stick 'em up, motherfucker.

We come for what's ours."

Up against the wall!

Power to the people.

Thanks, brothers.

[ Cheers and applause

- When they got together,
- Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale,

- yes,
- They got together with guns,

- and there's nothing
- Wrong with that.

Because we need some guns.

Black people need some peace.

White people need some peace.

- And we are gonna have
- To fight,

we are gonna have to struggle,

- we're gonna have to
- Struggle relentlessly

to bring about some peace,

- because the people
- That we are asking for peace,

- they are a bunch
- Of megalomaniac war-mongers,

- and they don't even
- Understand what peace means.

- And we've got to fight 'em.
- We've got to struggle with them

- to make 'em understand
- What peace means.

- Bobby Seale is going
- Through all types

of physical and mental torture.

But that's all right,

because we said,

even before this happened,

- and we gonna say it after this
- And after I'm locked up,

and after everybody's locked up,

that you can jail

the revolutionary,

- but you can't jail
- The revolution.

Right.

- You might run a liberator
- Like Eldridge Cleaver

out the country, but you can't

run liberation out the country.

You might murder a freedom

fighter like Bobby Hutton,

- but you can't
- Murder freedom fightin',

- and if you do,
- You'll come up with answers

that don't answer,

information that don't explain.

- You come up with conclusions
- That don't conclude.

And you have come up with people

- that you thought should
- Be acting like pigs,

- is acting like people,
- And moving on pigs,

- and that's what
- We've got to do.

So we gonna see about Bobby,

- regardless of what these people
- Think we should do.

- Because schools
- Is not important

and work is not important.

- Nothing is more important
- Than stopping fascism,

- because fascism
- Will stop us all.

We gonna see about Bobby,

because Bobby came

and saw about us.

When I saw he had

16 pieces of adhesive tape

strapped across his mouth,

when I saw the gauze

around his head,

when I saw that his ankles

were strapped in leg irons

to his chair and his hands

handcuffed to his side,

I knew that we would unite

in this country

to stop this outrageous,

criminal,

Nixon stampede

over elementary human rights.

We will free Bobby Seale,

and we will stop this trial.

A lot of people don't understand

the Black Panther

Party's relationship

- with White,
- Mother country radicals.

- A lot of people don't even
- Understand that word

that Eldridge uses a lot.

- What we're saying is that
- There are White people

in the mother country that are

for the same types of things

that we are for...

- stimulating revolution
- In the mother country.

- And we said that we would work
- With anybody,

form coalitions with anybody,

that has revolution

on their mind.

We're not a racist organization

because we understand

that racism is an excuse

used for capitalism,

and we know that racism is

a by-product of capitalism.

Everything would be alright

- if everything was put back
- In the hands of the people,

- and we're gonna have to put it
- Back in the hands of the people.

Everybody in the state

of Illinois

is gonna have to be involved,

or even around, the revolution,

'cause we gonna have one.

We gonna have to do

more than talk.

- We gonna have to do more
- Than listen.

- We gonna even have to do
- More than learn.

- We gonna have to start
- Practicing,

and that's very hard.

- We got to start getting out
- There with the people,

- and a lot of times, we think
- We're better than the people.

- But that's an insult,
- And that's criminal.

- It's gonna take
- A lot of hard work.

- Come on in, little brother.
- Come on in, little sister.

- Y'all can sit down
- And get something to eat.

Y'all take off y'all's coat.

We need some more cups out here.

Sit down, man!

- Y'all can eat as much
- As y'all want to.

Right on.

Who wants seconds?

You want cereal?

Who all wants cereal?

One, two...

Who wants cinnamon?

Raise their hand.

Who...

Anybody want some milk?

Alright.

Well, take it.

That's good for your teeth, man.

It makes your teeth strong.

Who else didn't...

Who left this milk over here?

- That's what the Breakfast
- For Children program is.

- A lot of people think
- It's charity, but what...

- It takes the people
- On the stage to another stage

and another stage.

- And any program
- That's revolutionary

is an advanced program.

- Revolution gets changed,
- Unending,

- just keep on changing,
- That's what we do.

- We take the people in there
- And take them

- through those changes,
- And before you know it,

- they are, in fact, not only
- Knowing what socialism is...

- They do not need to know what it
- Is, they are endorsing it,

- they are participating in it,
- They are observing,

and they are

supporting socialism.

Oh, you fitting to go

to school now?

Alright.

Right on.

All power to the people.

That's the people's thing!

Socialism is the people!

You afraid of yourself.

- If you afraid of socialism,
- You afraid of yourself.

- Basically, you knowing
- My ideology,

and basically,

me knowing yours,

you can, uh, support

some of our programs,

that what you're saying?

Diaga: Why not?

Breakfast for Children program,

free health clinics?

Brown brothers?

- We believe
- They're good things.

Uh-huh.

- As the focal point
- To organize

their mothers

and fathers.

Uh-huh.

Peace.

Mm-hmm.

- There's no educational
- Program in here?

Uh, that's

a social license thing.

You set that up, brother.

You can't put everything

on one piece of paper.

What about this bank?

- -Credit union?
- -Mm-hmm.

Man: Credit union.

- Credit union, my brother,
- Is a bank.

- Are you hip to credit unions?
- It is a bank.

- Yeah, you go
- And borrow money?

Yeah, that's a bank.

It's a bank.

Owned by the people.

Run for the people.

And by the people.

Mm-hmm.

- What would money be
- Given out to people for?

- Well, the people
- Would decide that.

Whatever. You know, the people

in the community decide.

You need some

living room furniture maybe?

You need a car, maybe?

- See,
- The thing is with me,

- I need to know
- Some more about...

- I wish you had some more
- Literature about

- the educational
- Thing here.

Because, you dig,

as far as we concerned,

you struggling...

- the way you look
- At struggling is that, uh,

- this depends on
- The educational thing, you dig?

- Because this depends
- On the education.

Well, the whole thing...

- No, but ain't
- Any of this does.

- You... you could form this
- With no education.

- You could form this
- And this.

- Uh, no, not the way
- We talk about forming it.

You know, right, we talking

about forming it right.

- You know, it's not on paper.
- We didn't write it on paper.

- How you form it right
- With no education?

No.

- Let me give you
- An example.

Jomo Kenyatta formed

- an excellent revolution
- With no education,

- and all it did
- In the end thing,

- Jomo told them motherfuckers,
- He said,

"Well, uh, you know,

you can educate, uh,

hate in every blood.

- I'm your brother. - I'm gonna help you
- Lead the revolution,

now I'm gonna oppress you."

- Another example...
- Papa Doc in Haiti.

- Papa Doc in Haiti
- Hated everything White.

- Man, you couldn't put
- This White paper

- in front
- Of Papa Doc's face,

- but he moved
- All the White people out

- and he took over
- To be oppressor, you dig?

Because of no education.

- And if people had been
- Educated, they'd have said,

- that, "We don't hate
- The motherfucker White people,

we hate the oppressor,

- whether he be White,
- Black, brown, or yellow."

- So we got to know
- The educational program

- to find out what is
- Gonna be in the finale.

- Lot of people...
- Jomo Kenyatta's called

not a never-revolutionary

but an ex-revolutionary.

- So is Papa Doc. They brought on
- Successful revolution.

- That thing in the Mau-Maus
- Was a bitch.

- Bantu, freedom fighters,
- All that kind of action.

What we saying is,

is the end.

- But you don't
- Judge Castro now.

- You can't do it.
- Nobody in this room can judge

- whether Castro's gonna be
- A revolutionary or not.

You know what I mean.

- We talking about things,
- You know what I mean,

- with, uh, China,
- The People's Republic,

- and even at the state
- They in now,

- talking about even
- Going on further

into a Communistic state.

- That's what we talkin' about.
- Those are revolutionary.

- So we got
- To understand here,

- the educational program
- That you have,

to be able to figure out

- whether it will go
- On the right lines,

- where the people will end up
- In a situation,

- where they can be able
- To really control themselves.

- You understand
- What I'm saying?

- Uh, with no education,
- The people

- that take the local foundations
- Start stealing money,

- because they won't be
- Really educated

- to why it's
- The people's thing anyway.

- You understand what I'm saying?
- With no education,

- you have neocolonialism
- Instead of colonialism,

like you got in...

in Africa now,

like you got in, uh,

in, uh, Haiti.

- So, what we talking about is,
- It has to be, uh,

- educational program,
- That's very important.

- As a matter of fact,
- This is so important to us

- that a person
- Has to go through

- six weeks of
- Our political education

- before he can consider
- Himself a member of the party,

able to even run out

ideology for the party.

- Why? Because if they don't
- Have an education,

- then they're nowhere.
- You dig what I'm saying?

- They're nowhere.
- Because they don't even

- know why they doing
- What they doing.

- You might get people
- Caught up

- in the emotionalist movement.
- You understand me?

- You might get caught
- Being poor,

and then want something.

- And then, if they're not
- Educated, they'll want more,

- and before you know it,
- They'll be capitalism,

- and before you know it,
- We'd have Negro imperialists.

Yeah, but you see, brother,

- the reason we don't do
- A lot of talking

- because what you say is
- A foregone conclusion with us.

Yeah, well, see, brother,

- the reason I do
- Do a lot of talking

- is because I don't...
- There's no foregone - conclusions with me.

- Who are these programs
- Geared towards?

- You got Black Easter,
- You got Black Christmas,

you got Black Groundhog Day,

you got Black April Fool's.

- Ain't geared toward nobody
- But Black businessmen.

And I say that anybody

that comes into our community

- and sets up any type
- Of situation

that does not meet

the needs of the masses,

- then I, Chairman President
- Of the Black Panther Party,

say that I catch that nigger

by his collar neck

- and beat him to death
- With a Black Panther paper.

We not bullshitting.

Rush: In that area,

- where you have
- A high infant mortality rate,

- where you have, uh,
- Lead poisoning,

- where you have inadequate
- Medical service,

we saw... we saw the basic need

for free medical service,

and we worked hard and worked

over long period of time,

in order to make that a reality.

- Now up to this day
- In the Black community,

- you have doctors there
- Who are more concerned

with private wealth

rather than public health.

The concept behind

the medical center

is that we will take the profit

out of the medical profession.

Our medical center is a direct

result of the basic need

in the Black community

for free medical service.

You had this done

about three days ago,

- you said?
- Hmm.

- This is not
- The burned hand?

Right.

Oh.

Does it feel painful?

- Like it's infected
- And everything?

No, it's not painful.

- That's good.
- Looks good.

- We got doctors
- For every day this week.

Next week we got...

No, we need one

for next Thursday.

Come to the clinic tomorrow

for an appointment.

- Rush: What about...
- What are the chances

- we get an ambulance
- Down here?

We can buy an ambulance.

That's about

the best chance.

Well, what about...

Idea's alright, but...

- you know,
- The idea's alright,

- but we just gotta have money
- To get an ambulance.

- But can't you get
- A used ambulance?

Yeah.

I tell you, I'm gonna bring

a couple of pharmacists

from the hospital where I am.

- They're gonna come out
- And see.

- They're interested
- In working, you know.

Satchel: We can have patients

come through, see a doctor.

After they gets through,

get tests, what have you,

- then they comes in
- And see the people's advocate.

That's a community person

or personal partner

who acts like a liaison

between the center here itself

and the community.

He asked me,

what type of service

- they thought they got here,
- In the center.

You know, any other criticisms

of the medical center itself.

It's also to deal with problems

- outside medical problems,
- You know.

People's advocate

has a resource file.

In this file, we have,

uh, teachers, uh, sociologists,

speech therapists,

social workers.

You know, this is all

a part of resource files.

Hampton:

Okay, well, look it here.

Look it here.

He'll sit over here and talk

about all that jail time

- he had behind
- His motherfucking badge.

I said,

"I got the rap, too."

This is Bobby Rush.

- The Deputy Minister
- For the state of Illinois.

Bad motherfucker.

You can tell the way

Chairman Bobby Seale

- feels the way
- About Huey P. Newton.

I feel the same way

about Bobby Rush.

- We didn't start
- The Black Panther Party,

but we do know this...

- That we are some
- Bad motherfuckers.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- The Black Panther Party
- Gonna remain

here in the state of Illinois.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- You know, some time
- We get to talking,

- and I go to court,
- And they say "Well, Fred"...

I come back and Rush say,

- "Fred, we got to keep you
- On the streets."

- Then Rush'll go to court,
- And he come back,

- and I'll say, "Rush, we got
- To keep you on the streets."

And after we just

went back and forth,

we decided that we liked

each other so well,

- Goddamn it,
- We're gonna both stay

on the motherfuckin' streets.

Ain't nobody goin' nowhere.

They ain't taking us nowhere.

- we gonna stay right here
- With the people.

We are gonna have to move,

- and we're gonna
- Have to move fast,

- we're gonna
- Have to move hard,

- and we're gonna have
- To move organized.

To be able to keep Bobby Rush

on the streets.

- They got our field secretary,
- Sams, Jr.,

up against the wall.

- They got our Minister
- Of Information

up against the wall.

Everybody...

They even got Chairman Fred

up against the wall.

Everybody against the wall.

They even talking about

giving folks 20 years,

talking about

giving me 20 years.

They did...

For the ice cream truck robbery.

That's right.

$71 worth of ice cream,

710 ice-cream bars.

I might be big, but I can't eat

710 ice-cream bars.

- But even though
- They tried to give me

all that bad publicity,

they still came out, in the end,

showing the true nature

of a capitalist.

- Because they said I went in
- To the truck,

beat up this pig that was

in our community,

exploiting people,

took the ice-cream bars

from him,

handed them out to the kids.

- Even though
- They made me a thief,

- they made me
- A Robin Hood-type thief.

Yay to the people.

Here is a man

of the revolution, people.

- Deputy Minister of Defense
- For the state of Illinois,

bad motherfucker,

a brother of mine,

- a brother I've been working
- With a long time

and will continue to work with.

- I'm gonna eat with him,
- I'm gonna sleep with him,

- I'm gonna die with him,
- I'm gonna live with him,

I'm gonna lead with him...

Bobby Rush.

-Hello!

-Hello!

- We gonna take the case
- To the people,

and the people said that Fred

is gonna remain free,

- that Fred is innocent of
- Anything against the people.

He might be, uh, guilty

of, uh, fuckin'

- with the power structure,
- But we can relate to that.

Power to the people,

and we are gonna move

on this power structure,

like Bobby said,

- we gonna say, "Get up
- Against the wall, motherfucker,

- because this is a hold-up,
- And we came to get what's ours."

Thank you.

Hampton: Okay, now, we're gonna

organize the movement so big

to make sure that the leaders

of the Black Panther Party

in this state

are not political prisoners

- and are not exiled
- Or are not killed,

- that that movement
- Is gonna be so big

that we might even have to go

and get Huey P. Newton

and let him carry a sign.

- We gonna have everybody
- Involved.

We're gonna have

everybody involved.

And we gonna start

a thing called "Free Fred."

Don't that sound nice?

Hey, let's do that.

"Free Fred!"

- -Free Fred!
- -Free Fred!

- -Free Fred!
- -Free Fred!

-Free Fred!

-Free Fred!

- Hampton:
- Hey, I ain't even in jail yet.

- Bailiff: The state of Illinois
- Versus Fred Hampton.

The Honorable Judge Elijah

presiding.

The defense will call

its first witness.

I'd like you, again,

to describe to me

- what happened,
- If anything,

- after you
- And Officer Dunn

- had pulled
- Onto the school ground.

Uh... well,

I identified you

as the person who, uh,

grabbed me by the throat

and held me down

in the ice-cream van.

We were walking,

looking through the crowd,

and looking for the one

that beat him up.

And what, if anything,

did he say when he saw me?

- Or what, if anything,
- Did you say to him?

Who said something first?

He said, "That's him.

I'll never forget his face.

That's the one."

Okay, now, when that

police car pulled up,

- what, if anything,
- Happened?

Well, the policeman...

- One policeman was on the outside
- Of the car,

and one was on

the inside of the car.

- Officer Dunn
- Pointed to Fred,

and said, "That's the man

that did it, isn't it?"

Mm-hmm.

And the ice-cream man,

um, he said,

"Yes, I think so."

So in other words,

the officer pointed out me

as being the...

the... the person

who had robbed this man.

And in response to that,

after that,

the, um,

ice-cream truck driver said,

- "Uh, yes,
- That's the man."

That's right.

What race

were these policemen?

One was White,

and one was colored.

Right on.

Hampton: Officer Dunn,

do you know

the defendant, Fred Hampton?

- Dunn:
- Yes, I know Fred Hampton.

Do you know, of, uh,

basically what Fred Hampton

stands for?

Politically.

No, I don't.

Uh, Officer Dunn,

do you know...

do you know the... the...

the situation that...

- poor people, Black people
- And White poor people

and the brown people are in

in this country today?

Well, not completely.

But you do know...

- That part that you do know,
- Does that part include the fact

- that, uh,
- These people are being,

uh, oppressed,

by the White people,

that, uh, like to oppress

people to make profit?

Do you know that?

Judge: Sustained.

Let me rephrase the question.

Do you know, uh, a whole lot

of, uh, blood-sucking pigs

are vampires -

Do you know, uh...

Do you think you're free,

Officer Dunn?

Dunn:

Yes, I think I'm free.

No more questions, Officer Dunn.

God help you.

So we say, as we always say

at the Black Panther Party,

- that they can do
- Anything they want to to us.

We might not be back. I might be

in jail. I might be anywhere.

- But when I leave,
- You can remember

- I said, with the last words
- Out of my lips,

that I am... a revolutionary.

- And you're gonna have to
- Keep on saying that.

- You are gonna have to say
- That I am a proletariat.

I am the people.

I'm not the pig.

You got to make a distinction.

- And the people are going to
- Have to attack the pigs.

- The people are going to have
- To stand up against the pigs.

- That's what the Panthers
- Are doing,

- and that's what the Panthers
- Are doing all over the world.

We have brought to trial here

Fred Hampton.

You are here to judge between

two conflicting testimonies.

Somebody is lying.

Now reason stands...

The reason is very clear here,

that Private Jones,

who had come from Sanford,

North Carolina,

would have no great desire

to see Fred Hampton

up in this trial.

But, Fred Hampton,

a key figure in this community,

has great reason for not wanting

to be put, uh, in jail.

But the state's attorney

and the state's attorney office

has reason to see

Fred Hampton in jail.

We've got a new

state's attorney, you see?

And he said already

what he's all about.

People that had different, uh,

political beliefs than he had.

His speeches sound somewhat

like those of Hitler.

And we know why he wants to see

Fred Hampton put in jail.

- Why do I have a lot of arrests?
- Because of harassment.

Why is there harassment?

- Because the people
- That harass me

has set up a problem

that made me

disagree with them violently,

- and they... they set up
- This problem

in order to exploit me

and other people like me.

And why do they want

to get rid of me?

- Because I'm saying something
- That might wake up

- some other exploited people,
- And some other oppressed people.

- And if all these people
- Ever get together,

- then these pigs
- That are exploiting us,

- we'll be able to
- Run into the lake.

- That's why they want
- To get rid of us.

And, it's just, uh, it's sort of

like a primary thing with me.

I'm the... the first move

that they'll make.

I'm a part of the organization

- that will be the first
- Organization they'll move on

- because I happen to be
- A part of an organization

in the Black Panther Party,

- that is the only organization,
- In fact,

- that has came out
- And stood up, loud and clear,

- and said that we don't care
- What anybody says,

whether they have guns or not

and badges or 18 uniforms,

- if whenever they step outside
- The bounds of legality,

- into the bounds of illegality,
- We will blow they brains out.

- If they bother the people.
- -Right on.

And what makes them

mad about that?

- They constantly bothering
- People.

- Anybody that's out there
- For the protection of the people

- happens to be
- In direct conflict with them.

What makes them mad about it?

What makes them mad about it is,

that they had Black people

- and White poor people
- And red poor people

- and Puerto Rican poor people
- And Latin American poor people

of poor people of all descent.

- They had them caught up in
- Their movements based on racism

- when the Black Panther Party
- Stood up and said,

- "We don't care
- What anybody says.

- We don't think to fight fire
- With fire.

- We think to fight fire
- With water."

- We gonna fight
- Racism not with racism,

- but we gonna fight
- For solidarity.

- We say we not gonna fight
- Capitalism

with Black capitalism,

- but we going to fight it
- With socialism.

- We stood up and said, "We not
- Going to fight reactionary pigs

- and reactionary state's
- Attorneys like this

and reactionary state's

attorneys like Hanrahan

- with any other reactions
- On our part."

- We're going to fight
- Their reactions

- with all of us people
- Getting together

- and having an international,
- Proletariat revolution.

- -Right on.
- -Right on.

- Hampton: And that's saying
- All power to the people.

- They're saying that
- No matter what color you are,

you go into two classes.

- And they're saying,
- "There's a class over here,

and there's a class over there."

- And the reason
- That this class over here

- has never did anything to get
- This class off its back,

- because this is lower,
- This is upper,

this is the oppressed,

this is the oppressor,

- this is the exploited,
- This is the exploiter.

- And these people in this class
- Have divided themselves

- and said, "I'm Black,
- And I hate White people.

- I'm White, and I hate
- Black people.

- I'm Latin American,
- And I hate hillbillies.

I'm hillbilly,

and I hate Indians."

- So we fighting
- Amongst each other.

And you heard the testimony

of pigs here,

- and you got pigs of all colors,
- You know that.

- You got pigs that are White,
- You got pigs that are Black.

You've even got pigs

that are Black and White.

- Propagating the same type
- Of madness

that, uh, this buffoon Hanrahan

would be propagating

if he were here himself.

And why?

Because they want to keep you

to believing

that I'm your enemy.

And that everybody else

that's Black and that wears

a lot of hair on his head

and hair on his face,

- they want to keep you
- Thinking that he's your enemy.

Why? Because if ever you were

to disregard him

- and overlook him
- Just for a minute

- and throw away the cause
- Of the racism

and start to dealing

with a little logic,

then they can be beaten.

- There would be no one else
- You could attack

- other than Hanrahan,
- Other than Daley

and other than

"Tricky Dicky" Nixon.

- If you make the right decision,
- Then the oppressed people

- of the world
- Get complete satisfaction.

- I know you'll return the verdict
- Of "Not Guilty."

Thank you.

Man ♪3: Today is May 1st.

Huey P. Newton's trial

is up for appeal today.

-Free Huey!

-Free Huey!

-Free Huey!

-Free Huey!

-Free Huey!

-Free Huey!

- -Free Huey!
- -Free Huey!

Man ♪3: Our Chairman Fred

Hampton has not arrived yet.

The pigs are trying

to incarcerate him.

These are some of the things

we have to deal with.

Somebody, somewhere

knows what happened

to Fred this afternoon.

So dig, you motherfuckin' pigs,

get off your dead asses,

FBI, and J. Who Edgar,

and go and find Fred

before 7:00.

You find Fred, motherfucker.

- -Right on.
- -Right on.

Rush: And if anybody's out there

with him

that's harming him

or that's kidnapped him,

and he happens to be a pig,

well, then we just don't

discriminate about who...

whose ass we gonna kill.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

Rush: So y'all go home now,

and, uh, grease some pieces.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

And set them sights,

and what-not...

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

raise the windows.

-Right on!

And if we can't find Fred,

we gonna give y'all a call.

I know somebody gonna

construe this

to be that we advocate

people to go out and ride,

but I told y'all before,

that riding just ain't

no hip thing no more.

- -Right on.
- -Right on.

- So we want everybody,
- When they leave here...

- We gotta leave here
- At 2:00, I think.

Hey, pig back there, do we

have to leave here at 2:00?

Woman: Ask him again!

Hey, pig in the back...

- Why don't you talk
- To that chief pig,

old, decrepit motherfucker,

and ask him can we stay

a little while longer?

Marxism consists

of thousands of truths,

- but they all boil down
- To one single thing...

Right to rebel. You dig it?

-Right on.

- Narrator:
- Panther headquarters.

A police raid is expected.

Hampton: We praying that

Hanrahan leads the charge.

Praying he leads the charge.

They'll be here.

- We don't know what time
- They'll be here,

but they'll be here.

- Do any of you brothers know
- What type of blood you have?

What type of blood you have?

Man ♪4: B-positive.

- Make sure you don't give me
- No pig's blood.

Do you know what type

of blood you have?

Red.

Woman ♪2: Uh, if you're posted

by a window,

if, uh, an atom bomb,

I mean,

tear gas is thrown,

here's your water

and your mask.

- Keep this on you
- At all times.

- Hampton: You know, I know
- A lot of people

- saying it's a cheap thing
- Like this,

- couldn't understand
- The motive behind this.

Some of us young people,

you know what I mean,

know a lot of people

couldn't understand.

Me, myself, you know,

I was born in a so-called

bourgeois community

and had some of the better

things, you could say, in life,

- and I found that even some
- Of the better things in life

for Black people

wasn't too cool.

- And I found that there were
- More people starving

than there was people eating,

- and I found more people
- Didn't have clothes

than that did have clothes,

- and I found I just happened
- To be one of the few.

- And I made a commitment
- To myself

that I wouldn't stop doing

what I'm doing

until all those people are free.

- A lot of times, I wanted for it
- To be possible

- for people to be free
- Under capitalism.

I wanted for socialism

- to be able
- To be brought about

through means

other than desired means.

- But those were times when I was
- Trying to be subjective.

- I was looking at things
- And try to make them

- the way
- I wanted to make them to be.

- Because I didn't nine and dine,
- But I just thought,

- "Well, anybody shouldn't
- Have to die."

What we saying is, that we're

more than people

that are for armed struggle.

We're people that are

for armed struggle

for the purpose of bringing

on the people's revolution

- for the purpose of setting up
- Initially a socialistic state,

and for the purpose,

secondarily,

of advancing into

what you could call utopia,

- or what you could call
- A Communist state.

We are saying, that by

observation and participation,

by educating and by arming

and by teaching the people

- their revolutionary
- Political power,

we think that we as vanguard

can move those people

that need to be moved that way.

We can let those people ride

our backs

- down the path
- To social revolution.

And on and on and on,

and finally,

- like we say, utopianism
- Or what you call Communism.

We very confident that nobody

is coming in the front door.

- Nobody.
- No gas.

- Man ♪5: Nobody gettin'
- On the roof.

Nobody gettin'

on the roof.

Believe in, uh, what is it...

- The Minister
- Helping me.

The Minister help me.

- The doctor gonna be
- Coming to me.

- That's why
- I'm loading up.

Now, see, in other

given situations,

- like when you're trying
- To fight an enemy,

see, because, uh,

when you got height,

and you got firepower, too,

you want a battle.

Look here.

- What do you say
- About this here?

- Over on West... by the corner
- Of Westwood?

It's about 10,

12 stories.

It's high, isn't it?

Now, see, only way

we could, uh, get him

is out-shoot him,

get more firepower.

See, we keep him pinned down,

he can't get up and shoot

- when he feel the bullets
- Comin' at him.

So the only way that we can,

uh, get him is out-shoot him,

put too much firepower on

where he can't really jump.

Therefore,

what you're saying is

we got to eliminate,

uh...

Nah, no, no.

Just that,

- and a whole lot
- Of semi-automatic

- and automatic action
- On him over there,

he ain't got no time

to save nobody.

That's right.

You know, you might think

- it's a reaction
- Of my pride, man,

- but I just wish
- They would come tonight.

I wish they would.

Why don't you give

the military, uh, viewpoint

- on how much chance the guy
- Coming up here with?

Nah, it's impossible.

But as Eldridge said,

- there's a difference
- Between 20 million niggers

- and 20 million niggers
- Armed to the hilt.

- This is impossible, man.
- I ain't bullshitting.

- I have no...
- And I didn't realize, man.

007.

Yeah.

- See, we put Rush out there
- And you,

and he won't even be able

to get up to aim.

- Man ♪6: We ain't asking
- For no war.

- Man ♪7: Yeah,
- But the way I see it,

- if pigs try to take
- This here office,

I think the people will have

its first people victory.

Rush: Hey, man, what was that?

Them pigs.

We're drawing a line right here.

Pigs will come no further.

- They are not going to
- Make us retreat.

We are gonna have somewhere,

no matter how slow we run,

- no matter how long
- We have to run,

that when we reach that point,

- we gonna be able
- To stop and say,

- in the voice that Huey
- Would say it in,

that, uh, "Motherfucker,

you done went too far, you dig?

Because, uh, I got my gun,

motherfucker, and you got yours.

- And if you try to shoot me
- With your gun, motherfucker,

or if you try to take my gun,

well, then, I intend to flow

your motherfuckin' brains out."

That's what it's got

to be about.

- That's what it's got
- To be about.

Judge: Foreman, will you stand

and have you reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What is your verdict?

We, the jury,

find the defendant,

Fred Hampton, not guilty.

Rush: Illinois Chapter,

Black Panther Party,

2350 West Madison,

Chicago, Illinois.

Press release, May 27, 1969.

"Pig power structure

and their lackeys,

- in another attempt
- Of pig repression,

- have sentenced
- Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton

to 2-5 years in prison."

- Narrator: While Chairman Fred
- Is in prison,

the police attack

Panther headquarters.

There are three Panthers

in the office.

Five policemen are shot.

The three Panthers are beaten

when they run out of ammunition.

♪ The revolution has come! ♪

Off the pigs!

♪ It's time

to pick up the gun! ♪

Off the pigs!

♪ No more brothers in jail! ♪

Off the pigs!

♪ No more brothers in jail! ♪

Off the pig!

♪ The revolution has come ♪

Off the pig!

- ♪ It's time
- To pick up the gun! ♪

Off the pig!

-I am...

-I am...

- a Revolutionary!

- a Revolutionary!

♪ Piggy wiggy, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I say, you gotta go now ♪

♪ Oink, oink, bang, bang ♪

♪ Dead pig! ♪

♪ Piggy wiggy, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I say, you gotta go now ♪

♪ Oink, oink, bang, bang ♪

♪ Dead pig! ♪

♪ Piggy wiggy, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I say, you gotta go now ♪

♪ Oink, oink, bang, bang ♪

♪ Dead pig! ♪

♪ Piggy wiggy, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I say, you gotta go now ♪

♪ Oink, oink, bang, bang ♪

♪ Dead pig! ♪

♪ Piggy wiggy, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I say, you gotta go now ♪

♪ Oink, oink, bang, bang ♪

♪ Dead pig! ♪

Motherfucker, turn around!

Motherfucker!

This is the first day

- that the, uh, headquarters
- Have been raided.

It wasn't raided

this time.

We were attacked, man.

They just... they just...

You can look

at the windows, man.

Was there a fire in the...

- They set a fire.
- They got...

The pigs set a fire.

They...

They did it.

Once they got the brothers down,

- they went back up there,
- And the fire started.

Nobody was up there,

except the police,

when the fire started.

Frank, you wanna come...

- Get a picture
- Of that, too, man.

That's a shotgun.

Hello! Hello!

People!

"Other bystanders confirmed

the woman's story.

- Cook said some of the tactics
- Had been used

to raid our Panther offices

in other cities recently.

The Panthers' cook said

he had strict,

standing orders not to fire

or to return any fire

directed at them.

- Engine man,
- Identified as Larry White..."

Right on!

[ Continues reading

"It was believed the man

may have been injured

by a couple of police

taken into custody."

Right on, Pete!

- He read it.
- He yelled it from the roof!

Right on!

Right on!

Right on, Pete!

Right on, Pete!

We here,

we ain't goin' nowhere.

Rush: We say to Pig Daley,

"Hammerhead" Hanrahan,

Pig Connor, and the rest,

no more brothers will be

taken from us without cause.

- Chairman Fred is gone,
- Gone from the streets

- where his heart
- And his people are

but not for long.

For the people's love

of Fred Hampton

is lovelier than lovely.

♪ Free Fred Hampton ♪

Woman ♪3: Louder!

♪ Free Fred Hampton, Hampton! ♪

♪ Oh, free Fred Hampton ♪

♪ We need our warrior

to guide us ♪

♪ Free, Fred Hampton ♪

Free Fred!

♪ Free Fred Hampton, Hampton! ♪

♪ Oh, free Fred Hampton ♪

Free Fred!

♪ We need our warrior

to guide us ♪

Free Fred!

Last night, when the pigs

vamped on the office,

the community

were all out there.

They were in an uproar.

- They couldn't dig it
- 'Cause they know

we are the People's Party.

- We are working in the interest
- Of the people.

You dig it?

-Right on!

- I like to talk about
- What we doing,

- because we're in
- The Black Panther Party.

- Yeah, we armed.
- We are an armed propaganda unit,

but we spend most our time

working with these programs

and helping the people,

serving the people.

Huey P. Newton,

our Minister of Defense,

- says that
- The Black Panther Party,

uh, is an organization like oxen

to be ridden by the people

- down the path
- Of social revolution.

- You dig it?
- -Right on!

That's what it's all about.

They vamped on our offices

because of these programs.

We putting these programs

out for the people, dig it?

That's what they're for.

- The programs are the answer
- To the basic needs

and desires of the people.

- They let the people know
- That the Black Panther Party

- is concerned about the basic
- Needs and desires of the people.

- They educate the people to
- The fundamentals of socialism

- and the height
- Of the contradiction.

That's what it's all about.

And they gonna attack us

- 'cause we ain't talking about
- The Black Panther Party

that's gonna overthrow

this government.

- We said we gonna
- Heighten the contradiction,

so the people can see

the injustices that's going on,

and the people can decide

- whether the government
- Needs changing or not.

♪ People get ready ♪

♪ The revolution come ♪

♪ You don't need no ticket,

just load your gun ♪

♪ All you need is a piece

and a love for the people ♪

♪ You don't need no ticket,

just a loaded gun ♪

♪ I believe ♪

♪ I believe ♪

♪ Fred and people

will all be free ♪

Hampton: I learned a lot

when I was in prison.

I had an educational process,

a learning process.

- Come down to start
- Thinking about

- some of the action that's gonna
- Be taken against me

and other members of the Party.

And I don't see

why I'm not scared.

You know what I decided?

I decided it's being

a people high.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- I decided to be high
- Off the people.

You high?

-Right on!

- Hampton: I'm high,
- You understand what I'm saying?

I'm high off the people.

- Sent me away
- To the penitentiary,

and I went to the penitentiary

way down in Menard, Illinois.

- I'm thinking, I said, "Well, I'm
- Way down here in the country."

Had to get on my knees

and learn from the people.

- I had to put my ear
- To the ground.

- And when I pressed my ear
- To the ground,

I heard the people.

Give us a beat.

Oh, we gonna hear that beat

for the rest of our lives.

We all right about the beat?

Give me a beat now, come on.

Ain't you high?

Ain't you high?

Ain't you high?

♪ I'm high ♪

♪ I'm high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high, high, high,

high, high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high, high, high,

high, high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high ♪

♪ Oh, I'm high, high, high,

high, high ♪

I'm free.

Yeah.

You know what we talking about?

We talking about a beat

- that can't be stopped
- By anybody.

We talking about, we going

to make some changes

in this system.

We know they have our pictures.

- We know they looking for us.
- We know they want us.

- But we're still saying
- That even though we could be...

in a sense...

as far as this system goes...

- "on the mountaintop,"
- We in the Black Panther Party,

- because of our dedication
- And understanding

what's in the valley,

- knowing that the people
- Are in the valley,

- knowing that we originally
- Came from the valley,

- knowing that our plight
- Is the same plight

- as the people in the valley...
- Knowing that our enemy

is on the mountaintop,

our freedoms in the valley,

we say even though it's nice

to be on the mountaintop,

we're going back to the valley!

I be in the office every day.

I be in the streets

propagandizing every day.

I be working with

everybody every day.

I be preaching that solidarity

is the thing.

The end of a complete wipeout

of the imperialism is the thing.

- So people gonna be thinking
- About me.

- That's what Bobby
- Would be teaching.

- If you gonna be thinking
- About us, all we said,

we don't... ain't no thing

about goin' nowhere.

Getting killed.

- All we want to know
- Is that you doing

what we'd be doing

if we were there.

And you got to do that.

- You can't do it unless
- You believe that you can do it.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

- -In the spirit of liberation...
- -In the spirit of liberation...

- Hampton: we understand
- That they want

everybody in the Party in jail.

Crowd: we understand

that they want

everybody in the Party in jail.

Hampton: And we know...

Crowd: And we know...

- Hampton: that if
- We try to figure out...

- Crowd: that if
- We try to figure out...

- Hampton: and separate...
- Crowd: and separate...

- Hampton: and divide...
- Crowd: and divide...

- Hampton: who should go...
- Crowd: who should go...

- Hampton:
- ...and who shouldn't go...

- Crowd:
- ...and who shouldn't go...

- Hampton:
- ...we spend more time...

- Crowd:
- ...we spend more time...

- Hampton: doing that...
- Crowd: doing that...

- Hampton: than working
- For the people.

- Crowd: than working
- For the people.

- Hampton:
- So the quickest solution...

- Crowd:
- So the quickest solution...

- Hampton: the speedy one...
- Crowd: the speedy one...

Hampton: nobody goes.

Crowd: nobody goes.

- Hampton: Nobody goes.
- Crowd: Nobody goes.

- Hampton:
- We all stay right here...

- Crowd:
- We all stay right here...

- Hampton: with the people.
- Crowd: with the people.

- Hampton:
- 'Cause we love the people.

- Crowd:
- 'Cause we love the people.

- Hampton: Okay, you can put
- Your hands down now.

- We say, "All power
- To all people."

Crowd: All power to all people.

- Hampton: We say, "White power
- To White people."

- Crowd: White power
- To White people.

- Hampton:
- Brown power to brown people.

- Crowd:
- Brown power to brown people.

- Hampton:
- Yellow power to yellow people.

- Crowd:
- Yellow power to yellow people.

- Hampton:
- Black power for Black people.

- Crowd:
- Black power for Black people.

- Hampton: "X" power for those
- That we left out.

- Crowd: "X" power for those
- That we left out.

- Hampton: We say, "Panther power
- For the vanguard party."

Crowd: Panther power

for the vanguard party.

- Hampton: When you leave here,
- You saying the last words,

- before you go to bed tonight,
- Say, "I am a revolutionary."

- Make that the last words,
- In case you don't wake up,

- then somebody
- Might believe in it.

- And you might end up in,
- What they call it,

- Revolutionary
- Happy Hunting Grounds.

-Right on.

-Right on.

- Hampton: Say that.
- Say, "I am a revolutionary."

Crowd: I am a revolutionary.

God.

That's where he died.

♪ Onward, Christian soldiers ♪

♪ Marching as to war ♪

Man ♪8:

Oh, Jesus!

We can mourn today.

But if we understood Fred...

that we are dedicated

that his life

wasn't given in vain...

then there won't be

no more mournings tomorrow,

then all our sorrow...

will be turned into action.

He said, "But you have

to remember one thing...

and that's be strong."

He wasn't afraid of anything.

The immediate, violent,

criminal reaction

of the occupants in shooting

at announced police officers

emphasizes

the extreme viciousness

of the Black Panther Party.

So does their refusal to cease

firing at the police officers

when urged to do so

several times.

This is 2337 West Monroe,

described by police as a depot

for Black Panther Party arms

and ammunition.

14 State's Attorney's policemen,

led by Sergeant Daniel Groth,

found out indeed

it was a depot for weapons.

After a 15-minute gun battle

that cost Illinois Black

Panther Party Chairman

Fred Hampton his life, Sergeant

Groth described the raid

as 15 minutes of hell

and a miracle.

A miracle because not

one policeman was killed,

a miracle because not

more policemen were shot.

- The firing stopped only when
- The occupants realized

their arsenal was no match

for the police arsenal...

an arsenal that included

a 45-caliber sub-machine gun

and two shotguns.

- Andrew:
- What they didn't understand

and what Edward V. Hanrahan

doesn't understand

and what Richard Jolbeck's chief

assistant didn't understand

and what those police officers

- who put those two bullets
- In his skull

and in his head as he lay

asleep didn't understand,

and what Richard Nixon

and his assistant lackey

Mr. Mitchell don't understand,

is that you can't

kill Chairman Fred.

- -Right on!
- -Right on!

What they didn't understand

is that anyone who would try

to kill him is

and shall ever be

an enemy of the people.

And whoever would do that

can only be appropriately

called not a person,

but a pig.

What they didn't understand...

What they didn't understand

when they did that

is that pigs die

but Chairman Fred lives.

You are ones who are gonna

decide for yourselves

what happened in that apartment

on the morning of December 4th.

You are gonna decide

whether or not

Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

were the victims

of premeditated murder.

At this time,

there's no response from within.

I take my revolver

in my right hand,

and I pound... possibly four

or five or six times.

A voice from within...

a male voice from within...

replies, "Who's there?"

I respond, "Police officers.

I have a search warrant.

Open the door."

Hanrahan: "As soon as

Sergeant Daniel Groth

and Officer James Davis,

who were leading our men,

announced their office,

occupants of the apartment

attacked them

with shotgun fire."

I wait several seconds.

- There's no replies from within.
- The door's not open.

I again take my revolver

with my right hand.

I wait a second or so.

A male voice from

within the apartment says,

"Just a minute."

- Reporter: There was
- No response from the group?

There was no verbal...

was the firing of a shotgun

blast at our police officers.

There was

no verbal response?

- The response to
- Our police officers

was the firing at them

by a person in the apartment.

- Didn't they ask
- Who it was several times?

When the police officers, uh,

announced their office,

they were fired upon.

Didn't they ask

who is it at the door?

I looked at Duke.

I said, "Okay, Duke."

Davis: Go in...

Go in over to about here.

And I hit the door,

and I go to the bed.

Duke forces this door

here open.

- Simultaneously with that,
- We enter.

A shot rings out, Duke falls off

in this direction.

I enter

in a semi-erect position.

There's a woman

lying on the bed with a shotgun,

calmly pumping it,

pointed at my direction

and fires.

The, uh, fire illuminates

her face.

I get a very good look at her.

I feel something go over

my left shoulder.

I then step back here.

I look in, get up on my toes,

point my revolver,

look in again, cover my face

and fire several shots

at the girl.

I heard a knock on the door.

They said, "Policemen,"

told us to open up.

- And Mark Clark said,
- "Just a minute."

He got up,

and next thing I knew,

they had busted into the door

and came in shooting.

They shot me,

they shot Mark Clark.

This woman fires a shot,

and she...

- The illumination apparently
- Illuminates...

- the dang shooting illuminates
- The fella

- sitting behind the door
- In a chair.

He's pumping his shotgun.

I turn in his direction.

I fire two shots at him.

He stands up.

I stand up with him.

We struggle.

He falls down

over the chair on the floor

- with his head facing
- The corner of the door here

and the wall.

I fall across his body.

- This here is the room
- Where first brother Mark Clark

was murdered at.

- Man ♪9: Don't touch nothin',
- Don't move nothin',

'cause we want to keep

everything just the way it is.

Don't touch no walls.

Please don't.

Okay, this here is the door

that they said sister fired

through with the shotgun.

- If the sister had fired
- Through this door

with a shotgun,

you can look at the wall

out there and see

some, uh, holes

- where the pellets
- Had left out there.

You can see no signs

of a shotgun blast

- being fired
- Through this door here.

Reporter ♪2: Sir, you say

your men were fired upon?

- Witnesses who have seen
- The apartment

say there is no evidence

of bullets from the direction

where the, uh, Panthers

supposedly were to be.

I said that, uh,

after our officers

announced their, uh, purpose

and their station several times,

uh, they were fired upon

from within the room.

We say this is nothing

more than a fascist lie

to justify the murder that

took place in this crib here.

The doorway here

is absent of a door.

The door's been removed

and is now in possession

of our defense attorney

- and is going to be used
- In our case

- to prove
- That what happened here

was nothing more than murder.

After days of maneuvering,

Black Panther attorney

Francis Andrew finally

brought a bullet-punctured

door panel to the inquest.

However, a controversy

immediately arose

- as to whether Andrew's panel
- Was the same one

that was removed from

the Black Panther apartment.

This is Andrew's version.

Reporter ♪3: Which side

is the outside, sir?

Andrew: The outside, uh, you're

looking from the inside now.

- Looking from
- The inside now?

- Yes.
- Look out this side.

- Reporter ♪4:
- This the inside?

This is the outside.

- It looks like the door is
- Splintered on both sides.

- You'll see that
- There's a hole up here,

- which none of the police in
- Their testimony have mentioned,

as a matter of fact,

they have denied.

This hole up here,

it shows a bullet

coming from the outside

to the inside.

- The hole
- At the bottom there?

The hole at the bottom

is a hole that was made

- while the door
- Was standing wide-open.

Assistant State's Attorney

Nicholas Motherway

- says Andrew could've gotten
- The door panel

at any lumberyard.

- Motherway's point was backed up
- At least in part

by a police

crime-lab technician,

- who examined the door
- In the Panther apartment

the same day as the raid.

- The technician said,
- First of all,

- that there was only one hole
- In the panel

the day he examined it.

- And second of all, he said
- That he couldn't be sure

- the panels were one
- And the same.

Andrew: It is December 4, 1969,

at 10:54 a.m.

My name is Skip Andrew,

and I am at 2337 West Monroe

Street, Chicago, Illinois.

This door, which is the door

entering into the living room,

has two holes in it.

- This one I'm pointing
- To right here,

10 inches from the edge,

and this one, uh,

down here, 12 inches.

Uh, the first one I referred to

is 25 from the top,

and the second one 36

from the top.

- Now, as you open this,
- There's also, of course,

a knob door in this one.

As you open this door,

there's, uh,

blood behind the door.

The, uh, top hole shows

that the bullet was incoming.

They fired through the door

- and hit the brother
- Through the door.

The brother fell here,

- and most of the blood
- Is dried up,

- but you can see
- A little bit of it there

- and a little bit of it
- On the floor.

- The brother was shot four
- Or five times.

- So after they came
- Through the door,

- they shot him again
- To make sure he was dead.

Mr. Montgomery,

Dr. Constantino

testified today

- that Mark Clark
- Could not have struggled

- after receiving
- That shot through the heart.

- Now, in your mind,
- Does this contradict

- the testimony
- Of Officer Davis,

who described a struggle?

Uh, yes, it seems to me

- that was a very
- Startling thing.

We also learned

that, uh, the bullet

which was, in fact,

recovered

from Mr. Hampton's body

was a bullet

fired out of a carbine

by Officer Davis.

So that indicates also

that Officer Davis,

uh, may well have walked

into that back bedroom,

- contrary
- To his testimony,

- and fired a shot into the body
- Of Fred Hampton

at one point

in time or other.

- Carmody:
- There were six others assigned

to the back door.

I came up on the back porch.

I placed myself

to the right of the door.

- I put my head down enough
- So I could hear

if there was any

conversation in the building.

I heard people talking

in the front,

and then I heard a loud, uh,

shot, sounded like a shotgun.

I backed up

and kicked the door open.

I started in, and before I could

get past the threshold,

there were three shots fired

from the rear bedroom.

They were directed directly

at the back door, uh,

as I was coming in.

I backed out again.

Hanrahan: Only by the grace

of God, uh,

- were one of our... or two
- Of our police officers

prevented from being killed, uh,

when they were fired upon

- as soon as they announced
- Their office

and knocking on the door.

Andrew:

On December 11, 1969,

the "Chicago Tribune"

carried a story

that had characterized

as an exclusive version

- from the State's Attorney's
- Office.

Reporter ♪5: Why was

the exclusion made

in the "Chicago Tribune"?

Because that newspaper,

the "Chicago Tribune,"

in my opinion,

gave a very balanced,

fair report of the events

that occurred.

- It has nothing to do
- With the class of people,

- or the type of people
- That buy the "Tribune"

- as opposed to other papers
- In the city?

Does anybody have

a sensible question?

Andrew: Included in the

exclusive was a photo,

carefully circled

to show bullet holes

supposed to be

in the back door.

- The account that
- We made public yesterday

gives a detailed explanation of

what happened in that apartment.

I stand whole-heartedly behind

it as absolutely accurate.

- Reporter ♪6: There is
- One inconsistency.

Well, for example...

I do not intend to quibble

about that account.

- Do you intend
- To get the truth?

The account that

we gave of the events

is the truth.

- One of the four pictures
- You gave the "Tribune"

- had two bullet holes
- In the right side

of what was supposed

to be the rear door.

Rush: Hanrahan has lied before,

he's gonna lie again.

- That... that hole that
- He's blown up in the paper

is, uh, the hole of a nail.

- Man ♪10: Tight close-up
- Of the nail head.

- Man ♪11: Plus a little bit
- Of the door hasp.

Plus the door hasp.

Mm-hmm.

Here you see the large nail

heads being pointed out.

I have said that, uh,

we released the pictures.

We have not characterized

or described,

uh, the, uh, conditions

that they portray,

other than to say that that

is an accurate portrayal

of that, uh, particular object.

- if any of the four pictures
- They received

- had portrayed bullet holes
- In any of the walls?

- Andrew: Another photo claimed
- To show the bullet-riddled door

across from the bedroom.

The officers testified that the

Panthers fired into that door

from inside their bedroom.

In fact, the door in the photo

was the bedroom door,

and the holes in the door

were made by police gunfire

at the Panthers.

As you can see,

the bathroom door is intact.

Not only the bathroom door,

but the entire wall area

is intact.

There was a...

there was a picture of the, uh,

the inside of the door

to the bathroom, yes.

- Reporter ♪9: That door,
- Our reporters discovered,

- corresponded to one
- On the front living room

adjoining the bedroom.

- There were holes
- In the door.

When the door was opened,

those holes corresponded

- to holes
- That were in the wall

adjoining between the bedroom

and the living room.

- When they stuck a stick
- Through the holes,

they all matched up.

I have... I make...

As I say again,

I make no evaluation

of the pictures,

other than to say

they portray conditions

- as they existed
- In that apartment at the time

those pictures were taken.

This is the door

that is supposed to contain

numerous marks,

from, uh, stray shotgun blasts,

small-arms fire,

which again was fired

by members of the "vicious"

Black Panther Party, who was

standing in this bedroom here,

- shooting out
- Into the hallway here.

I urge... I urge

your inventory

of each of these

vicious weapons.

This attack... this attack

by the Black Panthers

on the police,

plus the weapons

which were recovered, uh,

at the, uh, depot where

they were storing them,

clearly demonstrates

the true character

of the Black Panther Party.

- Nobody...
- I have never denied

- that there
- Was no weapons there.

- As a matter of fact,
- He would be a fool

- if he didn't
- Have a weapon there,

- knowing, uh, the ferociousness
- Of the pigs,

- how they just jump out
- Of the cars and shoot you down,

- how they knock on your door
- And blow, uh,

- 19-year old sister's
- Head off with shotguns,

- how they kill two brothers
- In one week.

- Yeah, he's...
- And as a matter of fact,

- everybody that's concerned
- Should have

- something in their homes
- To protect themselves

because Hanrahan is a madman.

- Reporter ♪10: Mr. Hanrahan,
- Can you tell me

- why your officers
- Did not try to use tear gas?

- Isn't this
- The usual procedure

to flush someone

out of a building?

Our officers, uh,

used the means necessary

to effect the search

and to present...

prevent themselves

from being killed upon

after they were...

- killed after
- They were fired upon.

Isn't it true that

you usually use...

your men usually use,

uh, tear gas,

- in situations
- Such as this?

- And why didn't they use it
- This time?

No, that is not true.

They came with murder

on they mind, you see?

- Even if they wanted
- To take somebody to jail,

- it would have been
- A simple matter

- of just shooting some tear gas,
- And it'd brought everybody out.

Right on.

This is where our Chairman

had his brains blown out,

as he, uh, laying in bed,

sleeping at 4:30 in the morning.

Someone came into the room,

started shaking the Chairman.

- Said, "Chairman, Chairman,
- Wake up.

The pigs was mapping."

Still half asleep, I looked up,

and I saw bullets coming

from it looked like the front

of the apartment,

from the kitchen area.

They were... pigs just shooting.

And, uh, about this time,

I jumped on top of the Chairman.

He looked up.

Looked like

all the pigs just converged

into the entrance way

to the bedroom area,

back-bedroom area.

Mattress is just going.

You could feel

the bullets going into it.

I just remember thinking they

dead, everybody in there.

Um... when he looked up,

he just looked up,

he didn't say a word,

he didn't move except

for moving his head up.

He lays his head back down

to the side like that.

He never said a word.

He never got up off the bed.

- Um, the person
- Who was in the room,

- he kept hollering out,
- "Stop shooting, stop shooting!

- We have a pregnant woman,
- A pregnant sister in here!"

At that time, I was 8 1/2,

9 months pregnant.

My baby was to be delivered

in two weeks.

Pigs kept on shooting.

So I kept on hollering out,

and finally they stopped.

They pushed, um, me

and another brother

by the, uh, kitchen door.

He told us to face the wall.

Heard a pig say,

"He's barely alive.

He'll barely make it."

I assumed they were talking

about Chairman Fred.

So then, they started shooting.

The pigs... they started

shooting again.

I heard a sister scream.

They stopped shooting.

A pig said, "He's good

and dead now."

- Pigs running around laughing.
- They were really happy.

You know, talking about

Chairman Fred is dead.

I never saw Chairman Fred again.

Inflammatory statements

and false charges

- against our office
- Have been made by spokesmen

- for the Black Panther Party
- And others,

despite the fact that

the speakers

had no reliable knowledge

about the occurrence.

- Well, the best account
- That I can give,

is, uh, the room

where I was in, uh,

the actions of things

surrounding me personally,

you know,

first thing I remember,

when I woke up,

was, uh, a knock on the door,

and it was only

a matter of seconds.

In fact, I would say

it was less than 5 seconds

that I heard, you know, shots.

- Now, the thing that struck me
- Was that,

I not only heard shots,

but I can see plaster

coming out of the walls...

of the... of the walls

in my room.

- So, I knew that the bullets
- Were coming through

the room that I was in.

I stepped over,

and I put the machine gun,

still on single-fire,

and I started from

the left side of the wall,

coming across, watching where

the rounds were hitting.

And I went over the girl's head,

down on the other side of her,

and continued fire

across this wall.

One strange thing

about this wall is this...

State's Attorney's Gestapo

raiding pigs say

that they fired,

uh, numerous, uh, slugs,

going up and down,

up-and-downward motion,

attempting to avoid hitting the

people in the apartment here.

You notice that all these slugs

are on a straight line.

You also notice that all

were fired at a low level,

at about bed level.

- Next thing I remember is,
- Uh, someone...

- I think
- It was one of the pigs...

- told us to come
- Out of the room.

- But there were still shots
- Being fired.

Now, I didn't know

at this here time

- that people had came... were
- Coming through the back door,

- but I took it
- That shots were being fired

- at the back of the house
- And at the front of the house.

And, uh, you know, they were

all coming through the walls.

The walls were nothing

but plaster board.

And, you know, a bullet

- will come through the front
- Of the house

and go all the way through,

out the back.

Somebody told us to get out,

- but I remember
- We were so afraid...

the bullets were still coming...

that we remained on the floor.

I heard another pause, and then

one of the pigs told us that,

- if we don't come out, he was
- Gonna put something in there

that would really get 'em out.

The idea came to my mind

that they were gonna shoot

tear gas or something in there.

We realized that there

were still some people

remaining in the front bedroom.

We don't know whether

they're injured or not,

so I plead.

I beg them to come out,

- "Please come out with your hands
- Up, pull out your weapon."

But the next thing I heard

was a barrage of shots,

real fast.

And, uh, you know,

we were hit this time.

I started with the gun,

still on single-fire,

being very careful

- and watching where
- Each round hit on the wall.

I walked them around, uh,

the girl sitting on the bed,

and brought it all the way

across the wall again.

As I was doing this,

Officer Davis was stepping up,

and he started firing across

the wall, from right to left.

I put one shot in the door.

I put a short burst

with the machine gun

on automatic fire

into that closet.

I fired four or five

shotgun blasts into the bedroom.

The second form,

still coming up,

caught a blast as the gun

came further across the room.

They told me, uh, you know,

to get up and walk.

And I told them I couldn't.

And then I think they hit me.

- Then some of they told me
- They'd kill me if I stay there.

So I kept trying.

I managed to, you know, get up,

and, uh, I made a little hop,

and I finally hopped out.

You know?

I am taking the word

of our policemen,

uh, over what we understand

is supposed to be a version

provided by a defense attorney

and by the occupants

of the apartment.

I was hit five times.

I was hit, um, two times

in the stomach,

one time in the leg,

and I was hit...

grazed in each hand.

Yeah.

This is just a scar, you know.

I had to have a section

of my colon taken out

because of infection.

I was shot over here.

Hanrahan:

I expect the general public

to recognize the quality

of these men's work

and the political consequences

can take care of themselves.

- Reporter ♪11: Do you plan
- To resign, sir?

Of course I don't plan

to resign.

- He's changed the story
- Every time,

- uh, from newspaper to newspaper,
- From channel...

one channel to another channel,

- and he's had to change the story
- As we've brought up facts,

truths about the evidence,

uh, that he reportedly

had given out.

Such as the nail heads,

such as the bullet holes

and what-not in the walls.

And it's only my conclusion,

is that Hanrahan,

if he wants to give

an objective opinion

about what happened here

that morning,

- he would have to come
- To this apartment and find out,

because he's done a whole lot

of subjective analysis

- because the man hasn't come
- To the, uh, apartment

- to find out what really did
- Go down in the apartment.

We have invited Hanrahan here

to see for himself the evidence

that we have shown to the masses

of people and to the public.

- Mr. Hanrahan, have you been
- At the scene yourself?

No, I have not been

at the scene.

Based on available evidence,

namely the physical condition

of the home and its contents,

the physical conditions

of the remains of Fred Hampton,

the search warrant

was merely a subterfuge

and the mission of the police

was to murder and maim.

This blatant act

of legitimatized murder

strips all credibility

from law enforcement.

In the context of other acts

against militant Blacks

in recent months,

it suggests an official policy

of systematic repression.

The pious statements

of State's Attorney Hanrahan

- concerning the brave response
- Of the police,

against the vicious

Panther attack,

and his allusion

to the "grace of God"

- concerning the sparing
- Of the policemen,

only makes the situation

more macabre and terrifying.

- Reporter ♪12: As an individual,
- Are you convinced

- that the official version
- Is a lie?

That it is

a case of murder?

Personally, I am.

- Anyone who went
- Through that apartment

and examined the evidence

that was remaining there

could come to only

one conclusion,

and that is that

Fred Hampton, 21 years old,

and a member of a militant,

well-known militant group,

was murdered in his bed,

probably as he lay asleep.

It seems very clear to us

that he was assassinated.

- And the police officer
- Who did that assassination

then walked away from it,

walked away from it

and said to other people,

"Bobby Rush is next."

- Now all of you who know
- Bobby Rush know that he is

the Minister of Defense

for the Black Panther Party

and also one of our clients.

And all of you also,

I assume know,

that Bobby Rush's apartment

was broken into last night

and also searched,

- but fortunately for him,
- He's still alive

- because he was not
- In the apartment.

- You think that if you had been
- In your apartment yesterday,

- you would've been
- Shot by police?

Yes, I would have been murdered.

- I still think there's a...
- A great possibility of people

trying to murder me.

All the moves in the past

- initially was done
- On the part of the police.

They murdered Fred Hampton.

They are out to murder me,

- just like they'll murder anybody
- That's Black in this country.

- Do you think there's
- Gonna be retaliation then

by the Panthers?

- There won't be
- Any retaliation by the Panthers.

- I think that there are...
- The time will come

when the people

themselves will, uh,

- take the power
- That belongs to them

into their hands, and move, uh,

to guarantee life, liberty,

and the pursuit of happiness.

- We would not be forced
- Underground until the people...

We really feel satisfied

that we've done our duty,

perform our duty to educate

the masses of the people

- to the injustices
- That the power structure

- inflicts upon poor people
- In this country.

All the mass demonstrations

that young people endorse,

this is happening right now.

- Bobby, what's the next move
- For you personally?

I'm... My...

- There's no personal anymore.
- I'm the People's man.

So whatever the people decide.

- There's nothing personal
- About it.

And, uh, the Panthers will be

there to serve the people.

Okay. Thank you

very much.

- Andrew: Of course,
- Numerous people have attempted

- to make formal
- And informal investigations,

with a report by the Grand Jury

for the Federal District Court,

- the Northern District
- Of Illinois.

And I quote, "This report

contains the findings

of the Grand Jury

after hearing

nearly 100 witnesses

and considering

over 130 exhibits,

including police records,

photographs, moving pictures,

transcripts of testimony

before other bodies,

voluminous investigative

and scientific reports,

- and reports
- Of investigative interviews

with over 100 potential

witnesses who were not called."

- And, of course,
- Among the main witnesses

before the Federal Grand Jury

were the 14 raiders

in the apartment,

- the police officers
- Who were assigned

- to the State's Attorney's
- Office.

The report tells us, contrary

to some of their testimony

prior to the Grand Jury

proceedings,

the report tells us that,

"At 4:00 a.m., on December 4,

Sergeant Groth briefed the 13

assembled officers

and told them

the location of the raid,

and that Panther arms

were involved."

Reporter ♪13: Did you know

that they were Black Panthers?

Carmody: No, we didn't.

- We just knew that we were
- Informed that there were guns

and contraband

in the building.

- Did you have information
- That indicated

- that Fred Hampton
- Might be there?

Not to my knowledge.

- You just knew
- That there were guns,

and the possibility

that these may have

been Black Panthers?

- All we knew is there were guns
- In there.

- At this point,
- It appears that, uh,

- the people
- Who are deceased

were, uh,

in a gun battle?

- Oh, they were definitely
- In a gun battle.

- I mean, that they
- Were firing at police?

Yessir.

- We saw the shots coming out
- Of the two bedrooms.

Sergeant Groth, of course,

from the beginning claimed,

along with his fellow officers,

that a shot had been fired

by a young Panther woman

- in the far corner
- Of the living-room door

as the officers

entered the door.

The report, however, explains

the impossibility

of this account

given by the officers.

Reading again now

from the report from page 181,

it says, "Groth, Davis, Jones,

and Gorman..."

Those are all officers.

"all insist that a shot

was fired by Brenda Harris

at them

as they came in the door.

None of them could explain

what had become of this shot.

- And it is not possible
- To draw a line

from the southeast corner

of the living room

- where Harris was said by Davis
- And Groth to be on the bed

holding the gun, out through

the living-room door,

the entrance-hall door,

and the outside door.

There are no holes in the

west wall of the apartment."

- Officer Carmody,
- When you knocked on the door,

what happened?

Well, I didn't actually knock.

I heard our officers

at the front, uh,

announce their office,

and shots fired, uh,

so I kicked in the back door.

- And as soon as
- The door opened,

I could see, uh, shots being

fired at us at the back door.

- Do you have any idea
- How many shots were fired?

- Officer: Uh, quite a few.
- I have no idea.

- Any idea over
- How long a period

the gun battle ensued?

- Seemed like
- An hour to me.

- Andrew: Of course the raiders
- Would have us believe

that they approached

the apartment

in a gentlemanly fashion,

that they were attempting

to save human life.

They knocked on the door,

- and they announced
- Their purpose.

They fired no shots

until they were fired at.

They called for "cease fire"

on at least three

different occasions.

Thereafter, three times,

Sergeant Groth ordered

all his men to cease firing

and told the occupants

to come out with their hands up.

Each time, one of the occupants

replied, "Shoot it out."

And they continued firing

at the police officers.

By their own testimony,

they admit that, for 12 minutes,

for 12 solid minutes,

in those early morning hours,

there was gun firing

in that apartment.

And yet the Federal Grand Jury

concludes that only

one possible shot

could've come from

a Panther weapon.

- And that shot could've
- Come through the door

by a man who had just

been shot in the heart.

They would have us believe that,

even though there was

only one Panther shot,

they called for a cease fire

on three different occasions

and didn't get it, and so

they continued their firing.

The great variance between

the physical evidence

and the testimony

of the officers

raises the question

as to whether the officers

are falsifying their accounts.

Those officers fired 99 shots

- through the walls
- Of an apartment

- where they knew people
- Were sleeping.

Murder is defined in Illinois

as follows...

"A person who kills

an individual

without lawful justification

commits murder

if, in performing the acts

which caused the death,

he knows that such acts create

a strong probability of death

or great bodily harm

to that individual or another."

Federal Grand Jury

comes to its conclusions...

"Unquestionably, the raid

was not professionally planned

or properly executed.

And the result of the raid

was two deaths,

four injuries, and seven

improper criminal charges."

In spite of those conclusions,

the report then goes on to say,

"The physical evidence

and the discrepancies

in the officers' accounts

are insufficient

to establish probable cause

to charge the officers

with the willful violation

of the occupants'

civil rights."

- Hampton: I want you to know
- That I want you to think.

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