Jen’s Reviews > The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther > Status Update

Battlestar Galactica's, "So say we all," comes from the funeral speech by Father Clemens for Fred Hampton. Fascinating.

Fact: Bullets make larger holes on exit than on entrance.

Barbituates! Ha! Called it!

The boldness on those police to make claims that can be gainsaid by evidence. Wow.

When someone sleeps through that much commotion, all I can think is that they are somehow very drugged.

While the title gave away this development, the abrupness of it abruptly happened. Sorry for the vagueness, but I don't want to spoiler.

So we have our narrator meeting Fred H. Our narrator talks about how he becomes a civil rights lawyer. A few wives are involved in making a documentary about Fred. Fred gets arreated, tried, and convicted for stealing ice cream, does some lockup, and then is released pending appeal. Lots of police brutality in keeping with #BLM footage of the now. And as the chapter ends, Fred is arranging to buy the Panther HQ bldg.

Chapter End // Dr. King didn't have the results in Chicago that he hoped and Fred got arrested and put on the FBI watch list just because he wanted to encourage supporters of a public pool to attend town council meetings.

Back to the life story of our author who did his summer internship helping promote civil rights in Georgia and then falling in love with a woman working in a Fred Hampton documentary. The course is set.

Chapter End // Fred as a high school kid got stuff done. He helped others get jobs and started a summer jobs program where he lived, petitioned hard for a municipal swimming pool, and started a youth chapter of the NAACP.