Chip Berlet wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Actually, Cook County Sheriffs did the actual shooting because the raid had
> been assigned away from the Chicago Police.
The _Tribune_ the next day featured a photograph of a black Chicago police officer. He filled the slot now filled at a much higher level of visibility by Powell.
Incidentally, the ease with which the authorities carried out this killing (decades later the City of Chicago paid some damages to Hampton's family -- big deal) shows again how much the u.s. ruling class does NOT need fascism. Bourgeois democracy, especially within a racist social order, serves all the purposes of fascism with none of its risks.
Carrol