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Fred Hampton — Part 7
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E _ Residents of age
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» “CHICAGO, Oct] Es AP) — The civil .
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> rights lawsuit stemming from a 1969 po-
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* fice raid in which two leaders of the
. - Black Panthers were killed is close to Church were
: being settled for $1.85 million, a Gov-} | _ killedinagun -
- emment attorney confirmed today. _
. 2 - Robert Grueneberg, an assistant
. # United States attorney, said that attor. a:
: > neys fo8 the » Governinent and the Plain. - deputies. Below: OY
tiffs Wo: out the tentative e- ¢
< ment after more than a year of negotia- dep uities crouch | a rs S,
tions with the help of ederal District behind cars 4. Fe
2 Judge John Grady. : ,
-The suit, ‘which accused law ‘enforce.
ment agents of violating the civil rights
of Black Panther members,-has been
appealed as far as the Supreme Court in
, its 10 years in the legal system, . 7°
**] am happy having a settlement,”
; * wir. SG “I hope it’s a Just . . . . y
Fesult.”” ; :
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” cluding the mothers of Mark Clark and
Fred Hampton, the two Panther leaders
killed in the predawn raid on the Pan.
od thers’ West Side headquarters here.
- Y . The proposed settlement fs designed
». $0 that the city, the county and the Fed.
+4: eral Government will each pay an equal
~e share, Mr. Grueneberg said. He said
- wt: that: the Justice Department had al-
ready approved the agreement and that
w~e the county board was scheduled to vote
Nov. 1 on paying its $616,000 share.
On Dec. 4, 1969, 14 Chicago policemen
assigned to the Cook County State’s At-
ss ey's office raided the headquarters.
e officers carried a warrant authoriz-
+ ing them: to search for illegal weapons
". attheapartment. — soe,
oer Suit Filedin1972. - “7” a
A gun battle ensued, in which the po-
- Hee fired more than 80 times. Mr. Clark
"and Mr. Hampton were killed and four
* of the seven other persons in the apart.
ment wereinjured, _ welt, pat -
~,., °“ A lawsuit charging civil rights ‘viola.
a ‘tons and asking $47.7 mitlion tn ¢am-
_ ages was filed in 1972 against 28 defend.
-¢ + ants, including Edward Hanrahan, the
- State's Attorney at the time, and the
hs city, county and Federal governments,
on behalf of the survivors end the} .
family members of those killed. - 4 +5.
“after an 18-month trial inf 1977be-
2
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fired the first shot. But
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ms - By ROBERT REINHOLD . ‘
“ye 2344. Special toThe New York Times ** -*7"
congregation of 300 black fundamental-
ists with roots in the mean streets of that the
Med by a messianic woman }of William
with a vision that God would soon de- | bers refused
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efendants without allowing the yoo te sia ew ae Sao
case te goto the fury. When furors dead- saturday tna corsroutation between the
“e Rendle estoy aS and Cochise County sheriffs |:
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