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BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) VIOLENCE a er eee ee was cleared by officers of the North Carolina National Guard using armored personnel carrier. Bottles of sulfuric and hydrochloric Scid were tied to limbs of trees as booby traps and four operable weapons were found in Scott Hall. One student was killed and one injured-during the disruption. According to sources ra re oe ei 1 ’ . a ee hin 2 Tanabe Wega AN MDP tea? Ba NL gr atree ga one ae t eir participation in the racial disturbance at A and T State University. - PLANNED ACTS OF VIOLENCE During January and February, 1969, individuals at Greenaboro, North Carolina, who considered themselves. to be members of the BFP, discussed creating a disturbance in a Negro area by rock and bottle throwing to draw a large crowd of police cars. One area mentioned was a dead-end street off Laurel Street in Greensboro. After drawing a crowd of police cars, snipers would then shoot the police officers. It is noted that during the disturbance at A and T State University during March, 1969, five police officers were injured in the area of Laurel Street by some snipers. On February 8, 1969, a white employee of the Thrifty Curb Market, East Market Street, Greensboro, was involved in an altercation with a Neqro male. This information was given to the Black Panthers, who had already discussed the fact that all of the white merchants in the Negro section “had to go.” The Black panther group discussed bombing the Thrifty Curb Market on the night of February 10, 1969, but subsequently called this plan off before five ofthe Panthers went to the Thrifty Curb Market in African regalia. This was to make their presence known and shake up the manager of the market. During the last week of May, 1969, were Copeman and other BPP members rode around Greensboro and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as .-: planning to locate a place in Greensboro in a better class white residential neighborhood 4 rents wee SOT ve ON ager WN a wate oe . ahead oes ne SF saae at | ak eg he A TNT no ae _ a oe es ee eg te mee Tene ee a mate cae