On this day, 28 October 1967, Black Panther Huey P. Newton was stopped by policeman John Frey who, realising he had stopped a leading Panther, called for back up. After backup arrived, shots were fired leaving all three wounded, officer Frey fatally. Newton was later handcuffed to his hospital bed and beaten by police and eventually convicted of voluntary manslaughter, a charge later overturned in 1970 after a mass campaign in his support around the world. This is a detailed account of the war of repression fought by US security forces against the Panthers later written by Newton: https://libcom.org/library/war-against-panthers-study-repression-america-huey-p-newton-doctoral-thesis
Pictured: a Free Huey protest https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1248357618682719/?type=3
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