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Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 13 primary focus of the SPU was on black street gangs. About this same time Mitchell contacted Jalovec and told him that the FBI had an informant, O’Neal, within the Chicago BPP. Before June 1969 the State’s Attorney's Office had relied on its own police force which it used only for routine matters. At that time, however, the State’s Attorney’s office requested that nine Chicago police officers—Groth, Davis, Carmody, Jones, Ciszewski, Howard, Marusich, Kelly, and Joseph—be assigned to the SPU. Groth was next in command after Jalovec, to whom all the officers reported. Tension and hostilities between the BPP and local law enforcement agencies in Chicago escalated throughout the summer and fall of 1969: Shooting incidents involving Chicago police and Panthers occurred at the BPP headquarters in July and October. On July 21 and October 3 the BPP headquarters was ransacked by Chicago police. And on November 13, 1969 two Chicago policemen were killed in an ambush-shootout with Jake Winters, who was closely associated with the BPP. Winters also was killed and seven other Chicago police officers were wounded. On the evening of the Winters incident, Mitchell met with O’Neal and showed him photographs of the dead police officers: Soon thereafter, on November 19, Mitchell again met with O’Neal and with O’Neal’s aid constructed a floorplan of the apartment at 2337 West Monroe Street to which Hampton recently had moved. The floorplan included the layout of the rooms, the placement of doors and furniture, the identity of the apartment’s occupants and frequent visitors, and the location of the bedroom which Hampton shared with Deborah Johnson. And, either on the basis of this or previous conversations with O’Neal, Mitchell compiled a list of weapons which O’Neal said were in the apart- ment and incorporated the list into a memorandum ° Testimony differed as to whether Winters was a member at the time of the shootout or whether he had been expelled from the Party prior to the incident. In any event, he was close to ben Panthers and was eulogized by Hampton as a fallen com- rade.