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- Chairman Bobby Seale and Captain David Hillard speaking to a crowd seeking Justice and change after West Oakland Party
- Where is the justice and peace?
- Founder Newton being sentenced to 2-15 years for the death of the Parkland officer
- No!
- Charges against Newton were dropped ad after 20 days
- I'm Free!
- July 1, 1968, the Black Panther Party opens a second office in west Oakland by Tommy Jones, Glen Stafford, and other dedicated Panther volunteers. A newley formed group called Brown Berets make their appearance on the courthouse steps in support of Huey. One month later The West Oakland Party office is raided and ransacked by police. 2 weeks after the office was raided Chairman Bobby Seale and Captain David Hilliard speak to a crowd of 5,000 across the street from the Democratic National Convention seeking change and justice.
- Seale and Hewitt touring different counties to spread BPP ideas
- Enough is enough!!
- September 8, 1968 Founder Newton is sentenced to 2-15 years for the death of the Pakland police officer who killed young Bobby. Court of appeals reverses the conviction and then there were two more trials- ends in mistrials. Newton's jury deliberates for four days and in the end come up with a compromise verdict, convicting Huey of voluntary manslaughter. He is acquitted of the assault charge and the kidnap charges are dropped. The same day J. Edgar Hoover declares the Black Panther Party the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.
- Bobby Seale after being kidnapped right after the wedding of Hewitt and Neely
- 20 days after the charges against Newton were dropped he is sentenced to 2 to 15 years in state prison and removed from Oakland in five minutes. Judge Friedman refuses all meetings for granting a mistrial. Four hours after Huey's conviction, two (admittedly drunk) on-duty Oakland police officers commit a drive-by shooting of the BPP office on Grove Street.
- March 19, Panthers Bobby Seale and Masai Hewitt tour Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. to spread the beliefs of the black panther party. May 4, Free Huey rallies are held in 20 major cities at U.S. federal district courts. One month later, The Liberation School, a BPP survival program, starts. in July of 1969, In Oakland, the United Front Against Fascism conference runs 3 days. The goal is to plan and discuss community control of police.
- One month following, close to the fall of the party, Bobby Seale is kidnapped by Berkeley police after leaving the wedding of Masai Hewitt and Shirley Neely. He is immediately taken to San Francisco and charged with initiating the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and New Haven murder of Alex Rackley.Los Angeles police department launches a full- scale attack on Southern California Panthers in a predawn raid. At two separate locations, 400 officers arrest Party members and children. During one shoot-out, Roland Freeman's body is riddled with bullets, but he survives. in 1977 Newton returns to Oakland in hopes of saving the BPP but is killed in 1989. Thus ending the communist idealogoy and Black Panther Party.
- You're coming with us!
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