Noam Chomsky - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015 - Jeffrey Haas - The Murder of Fred Hampton 1971 - All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party & Beyond 1996 -
The execution of Fred Hampton was the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon administration. Noam Chomsky
It was like a slaughterhouse. And there was blood all over the place. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Mike Gray, assassination of Fred Hampton, Netflix 2015
It was a death squad that did this raid. It was a police death squad. And the whole thing was set up by the FBI. ibid. historian
Of course, there’s also the legacy that, without a young leader, I think the West Side of Chicago degenerated a lot into drugs. And without leaders like Fred Hampton, I think the gangs and the drugs became much more prevalent on the West Side. He was an alternative to that. He talked about serving the community, talked about breakfast programs, educating the people, community control of police. So I think that that’s unfortunately another legacy of Fred’s murder. Jeffrey Haas, The Assassination of Fred Hampton
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 Panthers were supposedly to be. The Murder of Fred Hampton, rozzer Hanrahan television interview, 1971
Brother was shot four or five times. They came through the door and shot him again to make sure he was dead. ibid. witness
This attack by the Black Panthers on the police. ibid. rozzer Hanraham
The pig said, He is good and dead now. ibid. Sister with child
Fred Hampton et al: They shot that place up in ways you couldn’t believe. His wife pregnant shot up in the bed there; she survived as did the foetus but Fred’s body was riddled; the walls of the room riddled; you can count scores of bullet holes there. He never got out of the bed; he was murdered right there: 2.30 in the morning, and they claimed they’re serving a search warrant? All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party & Beyond, attorney, 1996