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Fred Hampton — Part 5
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port.” If accepted, it
means
the Panthers lied about Hampton's
havior.
Het a
aii ail
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Aa ge8utg
As for Hampton's head wounds, poli
lawyers say they we
that cai
back in
the
of the
through
police bu
Panther lawyers contend a police
They name the officer because he
filled out a police “firearms use re-
officer (whom they name) entered the
bedroom with a handgun after Deborah
Johnson surrendered and shot Ham;
known that this officer did not shoot
Clark or the four wounded Panthers, he
must have shot Hampton from 10 feet
away, they reason.
barely make it.” She heard more shoot-
ing. After it stoppec, she heard some-
one say, “He’s good and dead now.”
port,” which said he had “critically
wounded" a suspect by firing his hand-
gun from 10 feet away. Since it is
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in the head at point-blank range.
living room wall into the
Eighteen of these bul.
continued into the south m
the
m.
where Hampton was.
Throughout the raid, the police fired
lets throu;
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dozens of carbine and machine gun bul-
one of the best.
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eit into the living room
Officer Davis fired
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someone saying, “Shoot it out”
Was this his fabricated? :
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time, are not so easily explained.
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of the raid
Deborah Johnson
and four other Panther survivors gave
not smeared with
there is this problem: Seventeen nae
days after the raid
f
other statements remained hidden
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and that the police continued to fire into statements about the events
ther formerly
about
mething li
tam the back door at he beg
The Panthers admit none of them saw
this happen. They build a c
, ‘ant
the north bedroom, where they thought to a sympathetic attorney.
there was resistance, This explains the
renewed shooting Johnson heard, they
tial case. (One
witnessed
said he |
Police la’
sides a
a git fy
lest Panther ‘‘murder”
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