Fred Hampton was a model
Black Panther. He joined the
Civil Rights group at the age of 19 and
rose to lead the Chicago Chapter at age
20. He worked to organize the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program, an program that fed entire neighborhoods of poor people in
black neighborhoods. Fred's Charisma and discipline made him a threat to the
USAmerican government.
On December 4th,
1969, Fred Hampton was executed in his
Chicago apartment by a group of
police who entered his house without a warrant. They invaded at
2AM and entered with
automatic weapons, which is not
police protocol. Also not part of police protocol was the connection to
COINTELPRO, the
FBI's attempt to destroy the
civil rights movement and the use of a
spy to infiltrate the
Black Panther Party, (BPP). In fact they used dozens of spies, one of which was William O'Neal, the man who prepared Fred Hampton's last meal and laced it with
secobarbital, a
sedative that made him
vulnerable to the early morning invasion.
Many reports of the incident show pictures of smiling
cops and walls riddled with hundreds of bullet holes.
Sleeping next to Fred in his bed was his
girlfriend Akua Njeri. Being created inside Akua Njeri was Fred Hampton Jr..
In 1990 Fred Hampton Jr. was made president of his local chapter of the
National People's
Democratic Uhuru Movement (
NPDUMO), (which is now known as
InPDUM), a group dedicated to the issue of democratic rights for
African people, and the
belief that
self-determination is the highest expression of
Democracy.
Fred Hampton was essentially following in his father's footsteps. Had
COINTELPRO not been ended when it successfully ended the
Civil Rights Movement, Fred Hampton Jr. might have had the priveledge of an in-home
execution just like his father. Instead on May 19, 1993, Fred Hampton Jr., was sentenced to
18 years in
prison for firebombing a
Korean Merchant's market. During
the trial he was not allowed to use his actual birth name because of the association with his father.
Various elements of his case included that there was no actual evidence of a
fire, no
fire truck came to the scene, Fred Hampton Jr. was not allowed any
character witnesses and when his mother, Akua Njeri, testified she had her character attacked by the
prosecution with questions about her association with the
BPP and the
NPDUM and other things not regarding her son's case, even though she was called in to
testify as to her son's whereabouts on the night of the incident.
For more information on Fred Hampton Jr.'s
incarceration check
http://www.npdum.com/free_fred_hampton_jr.!.htm