He Was 21—The FBI Called Him A Threat And Killed Him In His Sleep #blackhistory

December 4, 1969. Fred Hampton was 21 years old when 14 Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 bullets into his apartment at 4:45 AM. Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, never fired back—he couldn’t. FBI informant William O’Neal had drugged his drink the night before. According to declassified COINTELPRO documents, O’Neal provided the FBI with a floor plan marking exactly where Hampton slept. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had issued a directive to “prevent the rise of a messiah” in the Black nationalist movement. Hampton was that messiah. At 21, he’d brokered peace between Chicago’s most violent gangs and created the Rainbow Coalition—uniting poor Blacks, whites, and Puerto Ricans in the fight against poverty and racism. The Panthers fed 20,000 children daily. Hampton’s pregnant fiancée testified that after the initial shooting, an officer walked up and shot Hampton twice in the head, saying “He’s good and dead now.” In 1982, after 13 years of legal battles, the government paid $1.85 million to settle—but never admitted wrongdoing. Fred Hampton was murdered by his own government at 21 for being too effective at uniting people. Most Americans have never heard his name. This is Black History Unfiltered.
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