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Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 99 forced to build America, and if forced to we will tear it down. The immediate result of this destruc- tion will be suffering and bloodshed. But the end result will be perpetual peace for all mankind. In one exhibit there appears a description of a “Plan for the Complete Breakdown of the State of Illinois Power Structure.” This plan documents the Panthers ad- vocating the bombing and destruction of buildings and public systems as well as the killing of government eaders. There had been numerous shooting confrontations and clashes between the Black Panthers and police prior to December 4, 1969, both nationally and locally. Several policemen had been wounded and there had been shooting with Chicago police at the Black Panther Party headquarters a block from the apartment in question on July 31, 1969, and October 4, 1969. On November 13, 1969, two Chicago police officers were killed in a shootout with Spurgeon Jake Winters. Winters was killed in the incident and seven other Chicago police of- ficers were wounded. The Black Panthers boasted of the killing of these police officers by Winters and claimed Winters as a member. Hampton’s own propensities as a leader in the Black Panther Party were evident from his proposal to murder a State trooper who was approaching his car stalled on a highway in a trip to Rockford, his conviction by a jury for robbery in May 1969, his kidnapping and torturing of a party member who is accused of stealing a Panther weapon, his use of weapons during a shootout of the Panthers with the Blackstone Rangers in Robbins, Illinois, and his often-quoted statement, “If you kill one pig, you. get a little satisfaction, if you kill some more pigs you get more satisfaction, if you kill all the pigs, you get complete satisfaction.” Others of the plaintiffs who were at the apartment in question had criminal] records and all had familiarity with handling firearms. Finally, on the matter of the Black Panthers being a political party it must be remembered that the nine peo-