Nixon makes war on Black Panthers
By David Maude
1969David MaudeUnited StatesPolice and the courts Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Police watch over two injured and handcuffed Black Panthers after their raid on the Panthers' Los Angeles headquarters.
THE BRUTAL battle between a force of 300 police-armed with dynamite, helicopters, teargas and carbines-and II Los Angeles Black Panthers has only confirmed widespread fears that Nixon intends to wipe out the Black Panther The unequal battle, which raged for four hours in the area around the Panthers' headquarters on Monday, was precipitated by a dawn police raid.
surender back tear gas grenades which police launched against the building.
Cordon
The police attempted to use dynamite on the headquarters appeared to have hittle bates A wide area of the city was were reported this year alone - with most of them put down ruthlessly by the government of Mrs Gandhi. cordoned off during the seige, which ended after one defender came out to talk with the authorities.
In two other dawn raids in Los Angeles on the same day, police arrested a further 14 Panthers. Police claim to have found stocks of arms, though they met with no resistance.
On December 4, this time in Chicago, a squad of police raided the apartment of Fred Hampton and Bobby Rush, two leaders of the Illinois Black Panthers.
They broke down the door, rushed in, and opened fire, killing Hampton and Mark AEF : factories?