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Hampton used the rhetoric of violence. continued from page 74 of the Maywood NAACP. He organized several demonstrations in Maywood, in- cluding one demanding a community swimming pool. In July, 1968, he was arrested in Maywood some time after an ice cream truck driver was attacked in a strong-arm robbery and $71 worth of ice cream bars stolen. Hampton de- nied even being there but was later convicted: His supporters said the Maywood police framed him because they considered him a trouble maker. Hampton joined the Illinois Panther chapter shortly after it was formed in November, 1968. The eight other Panthers in the apart- ment with Hampton, including two 18- year-old women and one, 17, did not fit - the mode of the early Panthers. (Louis Trueluck, who had a long police and penitentiary record, was 39 at the of the raid.) Nevertheless, Hampton was not a youth leader for the NAACP at the end. His rhetoric was regularly violent. In a Panther pamphlet, Hampton had coined an aphorism that ended, “When you kill all the pigs, you get complete satisfac- tion.” Another quotation attributed to, Hampton was: “Let’s say it and mean it, that from here on out it’s an eye for an oye Rend St 6 heady = :Ee Bee a fe.” There is an obvious irony in that state- ment, and a sadness. . Z