Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

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N~3~F`tS SEA-UP~ FOR KILL
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seaxchYng for a means to destroy
the Black Panther F,~~t~r:~,.~F~P~~-ilWhich.:.. ._ ~ , ~,
it con~~dex's~ ..a. . threw . . ... ._,to white su-
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prema~y and xace oppression in the
Bay Area ., .,,,Sat~;u~Cd~y :night, Apxil ~i ,a ; .t',~ :
they got' what.;, ey hoped was their
chance.
The set-up ,,r,'~.as,~: ;,~the nation-wide
strife bubbling in the wake of
Dr, t~aYtin Luther ;;King's assassination
. With Black ~tebellions level
ing white Amerio'a!-~si' cities bath
North and South, the Oakland cops_
intend~ad to use ".rthe super-charged ;
atmo~rphex'e in the Bay Area as a
stage for,rt'~he~ assassination of Panthex
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Ss,tuxday~ :,, ni .~ht~~ ;~ ::~members of the
BPP ~h~,d cangxegated in West Oakland
ground 28th and~>Uri3on, reportedly
near the home of a Panther member .
The cops, ".~~whac had neither followed
them
f Y'st
ox had stumbled upon them,
surrounded ~th8' , area, and then
sent in a squad car with two honkey
i~easts in ort~er~~ta-provoke an incident
. It appears"that -the two cops
3'ired fixst on a group of t3rothexs
who were in the street, who then
fire d back on trie cops in return,
wounding both . Some of the Panther s
axe said to have been around the
corner to find refuge in homes along
28th street, while others made
it up the street . At any rate, the
cops, who already had the neighborhood
entirely surrounded sealed off
a two block area and closed in fox
what they hoped would be a bloody
massacre of Black People .
Cops searched Black homes at gunpoint,
forcing occupants to lie on
the flloz w~aile they ransacked ~e
rooms . W~,thaut botheza.ncf to ah~GlC,
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they fix~d;~ ;3,`nt`o;~,.a . hs~me, ~at~~,1208 28th
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street nar~Owh~r;,,m~,~ .~ ~g and frighten
ng to c~~;~x~;.,.xhree elderly Black
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combing
who .' s7.3ved they e. After
t~ough;. ;.,. the entire neiyh-
` :boyhood and ~erroxizing Black xesidents
there, !be oop's stumbled upon
3 panthers who had taken xefuge inside
a house .
A gun battle b®twet~n Panthezs and
cops then raged td~r over an hour
and a half, with members or" the $~''
holding up inside the basement of a.
house at 1218 28th street : But the
Panthers stayed on in spite of machine"gun
fire, tear gas barrages,