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Fred Hampton’s son and widow, on ‘Judas,’ the Oscars and the fight to preserve the Black Panthers’ legacy The real Deborah Johnson hasn’t watched the scene in “Judas and the Black Messiah” where a cop puts a gun to her pregnant belly after a predawn raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. The 70-year-old now goes by Akua Njeri. She remains a revolutionary, as well as the mother of Hampton’s namesake. She’s seen the Oscar-nominated movie at least 10 times, she told CNN, but she has yet to sit through that scene. “I’ll get up and pretend I have to go to the bathroom because it impacts me so, and I cannot sit all the way through it,” she said. “So many emotions that come and … seeing this scene triggers other things that I may have forgot over the years.”

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