info@freemumia [MumiaNYC] To MumiaNYC@yahoogroups Today at 6:47 AM It was mind blowing for me, Bobby Seale, to see the images of a tear-gassed, smoky night in Ferguson, Missouri where the people were protesting the murder of an 18-year-old African American male, Michael Brown, murdered by the Ferguson police with his hands up in surrender. I’m taken back to another tear-gassed, smoky night in Oakland, California in 1968 after the death of Martin Luther King. That night another young African American youth, Bobby Hutton, was murdered by the Oakland police. Bobby Hutton, like Michael Brown, was murdered with his hands up. He was kicked in the back by the police and told, “run, nigger, run,” and when he stumbled forward, several policemen riddled his body with bullets. Everything was hidden about the shooting of Bobby Hutton in one way or another until six to eight weeks later when an Inquest into the shooting of Bobby Hutton began. Prior to the Inquest, Marlon Brando, my friend at the time, and I had done a television show together where Marlon had stated that “Little Bobby Hutton had been murdered by the Oakland police.” In response to this accusation, five or six policemen filed a lawsuit against Marlon Brando. At the Inquest, after two or three policemen had sworn and testified attempting to distort the facts of the murder, a young, black female officer, fresh on the force, testified that those police officers who had just testified had murdered Bobby Hutton. The Inquest was immediately shut down and Bobby Hutton’s family was awarded $250,000 and, of course, the lawsuit against Marlon Brando was dropped.With Michael Brown, we are still in the situation where the police are not forthcoming on the details of his killing, holding off on releasing the Officer’s name and trying to assassinate Michael’s character and, like Bobby Hutton’s murder, stalling for time.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:22:23 +0000
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