In December of 1969, 21-year-old Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was shot and killed in his bed during a raid by the police and the FBI. In the eyes of the American government specifically FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover he was a threat to society, and as such, killing him was an acceptable course of action.
Aaron Sorkin’s
The Trial of the Chicago 7, released in October on Netflix, touches on that moment in history in that film, Hampton (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.) appears to support Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who was the national chairman of the Black Panther Party and the case’s temporary eighth defendant but largely glosses over it. Arguably, the brevity of Hampton’s appearance is an inevitable side effect of Hampton and Seale being just one part of an ensemble story but points to the weaknesses of Sorkin’s movie.
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