Hampton speaking to supporters. He had quite a few white radical admirers, including celebrities like Dr Benjamin Spock, a famous pediatrician and political activist seen here in the background.
Introduction
Fifty-one years ago this past week, Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were slain by the Chicago police in a murderous pre-dawn raid. Over the next five decades the Hampton and Clark families, their lawyers, the Black Panther Party, movement activists, honest reporters and documentary filmmakers, and peoples’ historians have waged a continuous battle to uncover and speak the truth about Fred Hampton, the BPP, and the December 4th raid. These intergenerational and interracial efforts have led to a changing of the historical narrative from a shoot-out between the Panthers and the police, to a “shoot in” where the police fired more than 90 shots to one by the Panthers, then to a murder of Fred Hampton while he slept, drugged, in his bed, and
December 10, 2020
Our beloved nation finds itself at another historic crossroads in the long struggle for racial equality and liberation. Growing national movements to rectify the twin evils of mass incarceration and discriminatory barriers to employment and housing when people return home from prison have passed model public policies such as Ban the Box in employment and Fair Chance Housing. As our cities grow more and more expensive to live in and homelessness explodes, what are model public policy solutions that enable people with criminal records to access stable and affordable housing? As we work to create a more perfect union, how do we not replicate racial oppression in our public policymaking processes by honoring the voices and leadership of formerly incarcerated residents? What are the myths and stories that society tells us about people with criminal records and how has that prevented us from providing a basic human need and right to housing?
a big company, and makes big movies. i was saying to her one day that i was working about this movie of the black panthers in doing this research and really wanted to talk to someone. and she said well, i am working with this fabulous screenwriter. she loves to work this man did and is just incredible and you should talk to him. and i thought that is outlawed,, i didn t fully understand. was he a black and bare, a friend, did he just hang out with them? it seemed very strange, two very separate things come to screenwriter for a big hollywood company and black panther. that was my first meeting of jamal. i found him to be this incredibly soft-spoken and gentle man and i think it was in many ways one of the first times that i sort of saw an african-american who really was working in hollywood and writing movies than i thought that was really far more amazing that he actually lived this history, that i really admire so much. and you know, i think from then on we started knew eac
so, what happens when those we think are protecting us from criminal activity become the criminals themselves? what is the mentality that causes this to happen? how much can a police department overcome such a betrayal of trust, public trust? so we re going to explore some of these issues today with our most imminent panel, all of them experts in their field. and we are very fortunate to have them all here. let me introduce you first to stuart hanlon, at my immediate left. stuart is a defense attorney of great renown. he has over 30 years of experience, including some of the country s most high-profile cases. including cases involving police and official misconduct. next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. thank you, your honor. [applause] chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herle
experts in their field. and we are very fortunate to have them all here. let me introduce you first to stuart hanlon, at my immediate left. stuart is a defense attorney of great renown. he has over 30 years of experience, including some of the country s most high-profile cases. including cases involving police and official misconduct. next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. thank you, your honor. [applause] chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney s office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and t