Berkeley Barb (1969) Brother James Rector died 10:12 Monday night in a Berkeley hospital—murdered by the Alameda County pigs in the name of justice, martyred in the cause of PEOPLE’S PARK. James Rector was shot in the back on Bloody Thursday, from 30 feet with a .12 gauge magnum shotgun loaded with double ought buckshots. A chunk of police lead the size of a .38 slug lodged in his heart, causing death. This government has turned its weapons of war upon its own children, its own students, and has gunned them down indiscriminately in a street protest. The police version of the shooting states that Rector was on a fire escape of Granma Bookstore ready to heave a chunk of concrete at the cops in the street. Police fired upon him they say, and he fell to the pavement below. At least three witnesses termed this description, “A LIE.” Click here for the article
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Berkeley Barb (1969)

Brother James Rector died 10:12 Monday night in a Berkeley hospital—murdered by the Alameda County pigs in the name of justice, martyred in the cause of PEOPLE’S PARK.

James Rector was shot in the back on Bloody Thursday, from 30 feet with a .12 gauge magnum shotgun loaded with double ought buckshots. A chunk of police lead the size of a .38 slug lodged in his heart, causing death.

This government has turned its weapons of war upon its own children, its own students, and has gunned them down indiscriminately in a street protest.

The police version of the shooting states that Rector was on a fire escape of Granma Bookstore ready to heave a chunk of concrete at the cops in the street. Police fired upon him they say, and he fell to the pavement below.

At least three witnesses termed this description, “A LIE.”

Click here for the article

04/06/68 - Lil’ Bobby Hutton murdered in cold blood by Oakland police. The first one out was Bobby Hutton. He emerged, his hands in the air, from a burning tear-gassed basement where eight of his Black Panther brothers were still holed up. He stepped into the bright searchlight. Oakland police shot him dead. Bobby James Hutton, Black Panther treasurer, is now a martyr of the fight for black freedom. If he had survived the seven shots that shattered his life, Bobby Hutton would have been 18 years old this month. Click here for the coverage of the incident from the legendary Bay Area underground newspaper, Berkeley Barb.
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04/06/68 - Lil’ Bobby Hutton murdered in cold blood by Oakland police.

The first one out was Bobby Hutton.

He emerged, his hands in the air, from a burning tear-gassed basement where eight of his Black Panther brothers were still holed up. He stepped into the bright searchlight. Oakland police shot him dead.

Bobby James Hutton, Black Panther treasurer, is now a martyr of the fight for black freedom. If he had survived the seven shots that shattered his life, Bobby Hutton would have been 18 years old this month.

Click here for the coverage of the incident from the legendary Bay Area underground newspaper, Berkeley Barb.