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NOVANEWS Sputnik Newly-released FBI files reveal that authorities tampered with an investigation into a police officer’s death in the 1970s, resulting in a Black Panther leader dying in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 1970, Mondo Even we Langa (formerly David Rice) was one of 17 people arrested in connection with a bombing that killed Omaha police officer Larry Minard, eventually serving a life sentence for the murder. At the time, Mondo was deputy of information for Omaha’s National Committee to Combat Fascism, an affiliate group of the Black Panther Party, and unbeknownst to him, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had placed him on a secret detention list and ordered agents to neutralize him. Nearly 50 years after his conviction, heavily-redacted documents show that the agency cal...

NOVANEWS Loop Jamaica Ajamu Nangwaya The Black Panthers made clear the need for organized collective action by way of the formation of political organizations of and by the oppressed. The BPP became the vehicle through which the cop watch patrols and the necessary resources were mobilized to collectively fight police terrorism. Police violence against the working-class Amnesty International’s recently released report Waiting in Vain: Jamaica: Unlawful police killings and relatives’ long struggle for justice [1] documents the murderous and violent behaviour of the police within the island’s African working-class communities. Since the arrival of Africans in Jamaica as enslaved workers straight up to the present period of flag (in)dependence, relations ...

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FBI Rigged Investigation of Black Panthers, Newly Released Docs Reveal

Can the Black Panthers offer Jamaicans lessons on checking police violence?