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On December 4, 1969, 21-year-old Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton was killed in a predawn raid on his Chicago apartment. Law enforcement called it a justified shootout. The physical evidence told a completely different story.
This video breaks down the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation targeting Hampton, the role of informant William O’Neal in setting the stage for the raid, the forensic and ballistic evidence that dismantled the official narrative, and the years-long legal battle that eventually forced the government to acknowledge what happened.
The assassination of Fred Hampton is one of the most documented cases of state-sanctioned political murder in American history — and one of the most deliberately obscured.
