The Murder of Fred Hampton (Black Panther Party) Documentary

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution." Fred Hampton was assassinated December the 4th, 1969, after the FBI infiltrated the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. | The Real News Network

Yesterday marked the 47th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorne