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  • The bloody mattress at the scene of the assassination of Fred Hampton.

    COINTELPRO: How the U.S. state dealt with the last radicalization

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 30, 2020 by Sadia Schneider (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jul 03, 2020)

    Twenty-one-year-old Black Panther Party deputy chair Fred Hampton and his comrade Mark Clark were assassinated in a 1969 pre-dawn raid in Chicago. Arguably the most talented and politically astute of the Panther leaders, Hampton was renowned for inspiring activists of all colours. But he was betrayed by William O’Neal, his bodyguard and the Panthers’ head of security, who was an FBI informant.