The Power of the FBI

[KT2000]

Never forget that the FBI can be used to act on the director's paranoia and delusions. Fred Hampton, the heir apparent to the Black Panthers, and his associates were slaughtered in their sleep by the FBI. Hoover did not like him having influence and wanted to stop him. Hampton was a brilliant man who could have taken the Panthers on the route of success which was instilling dignity and respect. Putting a paranoid conspiracy theorist in charge of the FBI could take us back to those days of Hoover.

RIP Fred Hampton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

[snowybirdie]

1. Tne Fred Hampton

Raid was carried out by the Cook County States Aftorney Police, not the FBI

[KT2000]

2. The FBI was behind

the effort to get rid of Hampton. Hoover worked to that goal for a long time. A lot of people were involved in the actual assassination.

"In 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified Hampton as a radical threat. 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 December 1969, Hampton was drugged,[7][8] then 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. Law enforcement sprayed more than 100 gunshots throughout the apartment; the occupants fired once.[9] During the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, the Cook County Coroner held an inquest; the coroner's jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides.[10][11][12][13]"