1965 FEBRUARY 21st Malcolm X is assassinated by members of the nation of Islam who are suspected to be FBI informants.

AUGUST 11-16th The Watts Rebellion. On a red-hot August night in 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded with racial frustration. Six days later, 34 people were dead, hundreds more injured and a wide swath of South-Central L.A. was scarred w ith burned-out buildings and looted stores. Martin Luther King Jr. comes to calm the situation in Watts at a town hall meeti ng. For the first time in his career he is booed by Black people. 1966 AUGUST In Watts the Negro Citizen Alert Patrol cruises South Central Los Angeles in Rad io-equipped cars, monitoring police radio calls and observing police conduct. T heir vehicles are marked To Protect and Observe. OCTOBER 15th In Oakland CA Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale write the first draft of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) 10 - Point Program. In prison, BUNCHY CARTER and his friend Eldridge Cleaver, decide that when they are released they will start a west coast chapter of Malcolms Organization of Afr o-American Unity. 1967 JUNE The L.A.P.D. raid the Nation of Islam mosque. BUNCHY CARTER is released from prison and goes to San Francisco to find that Eld ridge has joined the Black Panthers. AUGUST 1st J. Edgar Hoover directs its counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) to neutraliz e and destroy any attempts of Messiah rising amongst them. OCTOBER

BUNCHY CARTER begins to organize the Southern California Chapter. OCTOBER 28th In Oakland officer John Frey is Killed and offier Hervert Haines wounded in an a ltercation after stopping Huey Newton and Gene McKinney. Newton is also critica lly wounded. NOVEMBER 13th In Oakland, the Alameda County grand jury indicts Huey Newton on charges of firs t-degree murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping. 1968 JANUARY The idea of an East and Westside chapter in L.A. is discarded. The Southern Cali fornia chapter, (which stretches down to San Diego) of the BPP is organized with BUNCHY CARTER as deputy minister of defense. FEBRUARY 17 A "Free Huey" rally is held at the Oakland Auditorium on Newton s birthday. More than 5,000 supporters attend including Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, James Forman, Ron Dellums, and Peace and Freedom Party representatives. FEBRUARY 18th A Free Huey rally is held in Southern California at the Sports Arena. The officia l announcement is made about the formation on the Southern California chapter. FEBRUARY 24th In Oakland BUNCHY CARTER along with David Hilliard, Anthony Coltrale, and Audrey Hudson are arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon. RONALD FREEMAN gets in an argument with US members at the Offices of the Black C ongress over his right to use the restroom while they are giving a self-defense class. US members shoot up RONALD FREEMANS house while his daughter and wife are present . Oakland Panther, Sherman Forte who is staying at RONALDs house is shot in the ha nd. MARCH

ARTHUR GLEN MORRIS, brother of Bunchy Carter, is shot and killed by "agents" of the U.S. government. He is the first member of the BPP to be killed.

ANTHONY COLTRALE is killed in Watts by a local police officer. APRIL 4th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TN. Riots occur in major cities across the country. APRIL 5th The L.A.P.D. raids the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office w hile members attend a Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial service. APRIL 13 Funeral services for Bobby Hutton (killed on April 6th by Oakland police) held a t Ephesians Church of God in Christ on Alcatraz Avenue in Berkeley. More than 2, 500 attend the funeral. Southern California Chapter Panthers from Los Angeles a ct as security. AUGUST 5th

A Los Angeles shoot-out between police and Panthers leaves two Panthers killed.

AUGUST 25th

Three Panthers -- Robert Lawrence, Steve Bartholomew, and Tommy Lewis are murder ed by Los Angeles police at a service station. SEPTEMBER J. Edgar Hoover declares the BPP the "greatest threat to the internal security o f the country". NOVEMBER 25th FBI memo details plans to cause dissension between Los Angeles Panthers and Unit ed Slaves (US) under the leadership of Ron Karenga. DECEMBER 30th

Los Angeles Panther FRANK DIGGS is shot in the head and killed by police agents.

1969 JANUARY 17th

BUNCHY CARTER and Deputy Minister JOHN HUGGINS are assassinated in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus, by US members. JANUARY 17th BUNCHY CARTER and Deputy Minister JOHN HUGGINS are assassinated in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus, by US members. JANUARY 17th Later that day Los Angeles Panthers MELVIN CARL SMITH, ELMER G. P[RATT, ERICKA H UGGINS, RONALD FREEMAN, ELAINE BROWN, JOAN KELLEY and JANICE CULBERSON are arres ted. They are questioned and held for five days on charges of possession of a d eadly weapon with intent to commit assault. They were released and the charges a gainst them dropped. The pretext of the police in making these arrests was to p revent a blood bath against the US Organization for the murders of BUNCHY and JOHN . JANUARY 17th Los Angeles Panther ROGER LEWIS was arrested without legal cause on a charge of violating Penal Code Sec. 148 when was merely stand and watching the arrest of t he other Party members mentioned above. He was tried and acquitted of this char ge. JANUARY 17th Los Angeles Panther WENDELL WOODS was arrested without legal cause on charges of murder and robbery. The charges were dropped and he was released. JANUARY 17th Los Angeles Panther YVONNE MOORE was arrested without legal cause on charges of murder and robbery. The charges were dropped and he was released. JANUARY 24th Funeral services for ALPRENTICE BUNCHY CARTER at Trinity Baptist Church in Los Ang eles. FEBRUARY 12th Los Angeles Panther ROGER LEWIS was arrested without legal cause on a charge of

possession of a concealed weapon. He was tried on this charge and acquitted. FEBRUARY 26th RAYMOND WILLIAMS was arrested without legal cause on a charge of possession of a concealed weapon. He was tried on this charge and acquitted. MARCH In Los Angeles, inflammatory letters instigated by the FBI are sent to Panthers from US members. MARCH 7th Los Angeles Panther ROGER LEWIS was stopped without legal cause for an alleged t raffic violation and then arrested on a charge of interfering with his own arres t. The charge was subsequently dropped. MARCH 14th In Los Angeles following a student strike meeting at Victory Baptist Church, an altercation ensues in the parking lot between US members and Panthers. Panther R onald Freeman is wounded in the chest and groin. Local police watch the fight fr om their vehicle parked across the street and do not intervene. APRIL The Los Angeles Panthers begin their Free Breakfast for Children program in hono r of JOHN HUGGINS. APRIL 25th ALBERT ARMOUR was given a ticket for a traffic violation by a police officer in the vicinity of the Watts Party office. Several officers then proceeded to ente r the office and search it, all without a warrant and without legal cause. Whil e they were illegally in the office, one of the officers was told to leave becau se he there illegally. The officer did not comply. A Panther pointed a gun at t he officer and demanded again that he leave. Five Party members present, JOHN WI LLIAM WASHINGTON, ALBERT ARMOUR, BYRON W. BARTLETT, JAMES RAY LEE and CHARLES JA MES, were all arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. They were hel d for two days and then released with the charges dropped. There-after WASHINGT ON, BARTLETT and LEE were charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. The Court dismissed the charge against BARTLETT. APRIL 30th Shortly after Los Angeles Panther ALBERT ARMOUR was released from the APRIL 25TH incident, he was stopped by the Los Angeles Police for a defective taillight. Both he and his car were searched and he was arrested on a charge of possession of a concealed deadly weapon, all without good legal cause. He was handcuffed a nd taken to the police station. Later the charges were dropped.

MAY 1st The Party office on 41st & Central was raided by the police and the following Lo s Angeles Panthers were arrested and held for one day, all without legal cause, and were then released: ROBERT MAXWELL, ALVIN MAXWELL, CARL BEVERLY, ANDREW JONE S, RAY EGANS, MICHAEL WILLS, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, DEVODIE BENSON and HERBERT PRYOR MAY 6th Los Angeles Panthers JAMES THOMAS JOHNSON, CHARLES JAMES, DWIGHT HUTCHINSON, JOH N EDWARDS, LUXEY IRVING and LEROY CHIPLEY were driving an automobile near 92nd S t and Central Avenue when they were suddenly surrounded by a large number of pol ice officers, some in cars, some on motorcycles. They were ordered to get out o f the car, were searched, their drivers licenses were examined, they were handcuf fed, thrown on the ground and various police officers kicked and beat them, then took them to jail. They were booked on charges of robbery without any legal ba sis therefore. They remained in jail for three days and then were all released with all charges dropped. MAY 8th At 4:25 a.m. Sheriffs deputies broke into NATHANIEL CLARKs home saying they had re ports of gunshots. No shots had been fired from CLARKs house. They forced entry and held CLARK, his wife, and two children at gunpoint while they searched the house. They found a shotgun which had not been fired and without legal cause ar rested CLARK for possession of a sawed off shotgun. MAY 16th Los Angeles Panther RUSSELL WASHINGTON was arrested without legal cause on a cha rge of interference with arrest. The charge was dropped. MAY 23rd San Diego Panther JOHN SAVAGE is murdered by US members. MAY 25th NATHANIEL CLARK was arrested without legal cause on a charge of disturbing the p eace when he went to the Sheriffs office to investigate the arrest of this wife. He was held for three weeks without bail on this misdemeanor charge and was rel eased only after a writ of habeas corpus was processed. JUNE Los Angeles Panther DANIEL LYNEM is charged with murder. Charges are eventually dropped. JUNE 5th Los Angeles Panther DANIEL MIKE LYNEM was arrested on a charge of murder without legal cause and the charge was subsequently dropped.

JUNE 5th Los Angeles Panther ROBERT MAXWELL was arrested on a charge of robbery without l egal cause and the charge was subsequently dropped. JUNE 10 WAYNE L. PHARR was standing in front of the Watts Party office when a patrol car pulled up and two L.A.P.D. officers got out with guns drawn. Without any legal basis therefore the officers approached PHARR and told him that he was under ar rest for suspicion of murder. They indicated that they didnt know his name and t hey did not have a warrant. He was handcuffed, taken down to the 77th Street st ation where he was kept for about two hours and then released without any charge s actually being filed against him. He was not booked but his picture was taken and he was fingerprinted before he was released. JUNE 11 ROBIN CADELL was arrested on a charge of robbery with legal cause and the charge was dropped. JUNE 12 Los Angeles Panther ROGER LEWIS without on a charge of suspicion of murder of il the following morning and taken to a ation, which was no longer outstanding. JUNE 15 J. Edgar Hoover declares ...the Black Panther Party without question represents t he greatest threat to the internal security of the United states. JUNE 23rd A car containing ELMER G. PRATT, ROGER LEWIS, EVON CARTER, GWEN GOODLOE and the two children of EVON CARTER, MICHELLE AND OSCEOLA, aged eight years and three we eks, was stopped by a large number of L.A.P.D. officers without reasonable, prob able or any cause, and without a warrant. One of the officers prepared a loaded shotgun for firing and pointed the muzzle of the gun at and held it several inc hes from the head of one of the children. The occupants were ordered out of the car and held at gunpoint while a search was made of the car. Officers proceede d to ransack the car, removing the back seat and strewing articles everywhere. They refused to let a licensed driver drive the car away from the scene of the a rrest so that the other persons might go home. They also refused to let EVON CA RTER have her babys bed or her bag (containing food, clothing and her personal id entification, keys to her home, and $60 cash). They also kept GWEN GOODLOEs purs e. ROGER LEWIS and ELMER G. PRATT were arrested on suspicion of murder without legal cause and were later released with the charges being dropped after they we re held and questioned for several hours. A second private citizens car, after the arrests of PRATT and LEWIS, followed the police car to make sure that they were taken to the designated station and not l any legal basis therefore, was arrested a Santa Ana police officer. He was held unt traffic court to appear on a traffic cit He was then released.

ost as is sometimes the case. Those in the second car were stopped and arrested by back-up police details. When the second car of arrestees (also L.A. Panthers ) arrived at Newton Street station, one officer got out of the car and threw LOU IS R. WILLIAMS to the ground, choking him and placing a knee in his groin. He a lso put a cigarette out on WILLIAMs arm. The other Panthers were arrested withou t legal cause and released shortly thereafter. JUNE 30th In Los Angeles, RONALD FREEMAN is arrested on suspicion of murder and possession of drugs. Charges are later dropped. JULY 5th ELAINE D. BROWN and JOAN KELLEY, who was seven months pregnant at the time, were driving down 103rd Street near Compton. They were stopped without legal cause by police officers and approximately twelve Metro cars pulled up in the immediat e area. They were detained for two hours and required by police officers to sta nd with their hands in the air all the time. The officers searched the car incl uding the trunk and their purses without a warrant and without legal cause. The y read every piece of paper and mail they found and made notes. When the two wo men ask why they were stopped, the reply was, Robbery, prostitution- well find som ething. The police officers also searched the women, pointed guns at them, and k ept telling them to run so that they could shoot them. JULY 5th Los Angeles Panther LOUIS R. WILLIAMS is arrested without reasonable, probable o r any cause, and without a warrant, when his was following a police car in which two Party members were held. He was thrown to the ground, choked, kneed in his groin, and like on June 23rd- a lit cigarette was put out on WILLIAMs arm. He w as given a traffic ticket and released after being held in custody for four hour s, during which time he was moved back and forth between various police stations , while the police were falsely telling other Party members that they did not kn ow his whereabouts. JULY 5th Sixteen police officers illegally enter the Watts office without a warrant. Pres ent are Los Angeles Panthers HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN, BOBBY DAVIS, WALTER TOURE PO PE, CHARLES JAMES, LUXAY IRVING and CRAIG WILLIAMS. With guns drawn the police f orce the Party members on the knees and proclaim they are looking for a known wan ted Party member. No reason was given by any officer for the action taken against the five Party member in the office, all of whom were taken to the Watts police station where they were kept for about an hour and a half, after which three of the members were released without charges being filed against them. The other three, CHARLES JAMES, LUXAY IRVING, and CRAIG WILLIAMS, were arrested on a charg e of burglary, which was dropped and replaced by a charge of resisting arrest. At the time of the invasion of the office, the Party members were preparing for a Party rally that afternoon. When the three Party members were released, three other Party members for the purpose of attending the rally then picked them up in a yellow van. After they proceeded a short distance a police patrol car stop ped them without legal cause of any kind and ran a make on all of the occupants of the van. After detaining them for sometime, all but one were released. When

they arrived at the rally it was over. This type of police action- the arrest, detention, and harassment, was set forth to prevent Party members from participa ting in the rally and to thus interfere with the constitutional rights of associ ation and free speech of the Party and its members. JULY 8th In Los Angeles, Panther WILLIE CALVIN is arrested for selling paper and for diso rderly conduct.

JULY 9th A plains clothed officer who solicited the purchase from Los Angeles Panther DEV ODIE BENSON of a Black Panther Party newspaper arrested BENSON without legal cau se. He was held without his consent and for an excessive period of time, over 2 4 hours, and released after intensive questioning and investigation. JULY 10th Los Angeles Panther WAYNE PHARR and four other persons were driving away from th e Watts Party office when without any legal cause they were stopped and searched by officers of the police department without reasonable, probable or any cause, and without a warrant. They were released and again without legal cause stopped five minutes later by officers in six unmarked Metro squad cars, again without cause. All were ordered outside and identification was checked. A crowd of con cerned citizens gathered and began to verbally protest the arrest. Everyone incl uding PHARR complied with the policemens orders. An attempt was made to perform the chokehold on PHARR who resisted this action. All where released except PHARR who was placed under arrest. WAYNE PHARR was kicked by officers and when he fell to the ground was attacked by all the officers. Three held him while the other two beat him in the groin a nd midsection. He was thrown in a police car with three officers and driven arou nd while they took turns beating him. They would meet other officers at various locations around the city where he would be taken out of the car and beaten by t hese new officers. He was taken to one location, removed from the car, guns where drawn on him and he was told to run. When he wouldnt comply he was beaten again - sometimes with fists, sometimes with Billy Clubs or flashlights. Finally WAYNE PHARR was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, la ter changed to battery on a police officer, all without legal cause. When a doc tor went to the jail with PHARRs attorney to examine him, the doctor was refused admittance. JULY 13th San Diego police provoke a two day riot, leaving two dead several wounded, and 1 00 arrested. Two officers are killed as well. JULY 17th Los Angeles Panther OTIS GRIMES was arrested without legal cause on charges of h

arboring a fugitive and failure to disperse. The charges were later dropped. JULY 23rd Two police cars, for allegedly having a smoking car stop Los Angeles Panthers AL A MOUR and BRENDA FRANK, without legal cause. The car is searched, without legal cause and without a warrant, and the said Party members are then released withou t charge. JULY 25th TONY QUISENBERRY and LESTER ANTHONY without legal cause were stopped by police o fficers with drawn guns. No arrests were made JULY 26th Los Angeles Panthers LUXEY IRVING and CRAIG WILLIAMS were stopped by L.A.P.D. wi thout legal cause for alleged traffic violations. No citations were given. The ir identification was checked and they were released. AUGUST A group of Los Angeles Panthers including HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN, LEMUEL JAMES, V IRGIL SMITH, TONY QUISENBERRY, BOBBY DAVIS and ROMAINE FITGZGERALD are participa ting in a demonstration in an area known as the Nickerson Gardens Projects. While they are standing in the area peacefully singing songs with a number of other p eople, mostly children, participating, and some of the people so participating s tanding in doorways in the area, they are observed by Police officer Phillips (w hose first name is unknown) drove by, leaving, and then returns about a half hou r later with two police cars containing a number of officers in each car. Office r Phillips, without attempting to place Panther HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN under arre st or informing him of the reason for his actions, and without justification of anyu kind whatsoever, assaults CHRISTIAN with a Billy club, gabs him by the collar and places him in the Choke Hold , bruising and injuring him. Party member LEMUEL JAMES starts to walk away and two of the officers assault hi m, beating him with flashlights and fists. LEMUEL JAMES and HENRY DAVID CHRISTI AN were handcuffed and pushed into one of the police cars. Other members ot the Party were also assaulted and beaten by said police officers. As CHRISTIAN and JAMES were being driven away by the police officers, officer Phillips keeps add ressing them as Nigger. When officer Phillips is asked by one of the other officer s what should the two Party members would be charged with, he replied, Niggers and then later on said, Well think of something. The verbal harassment continued alo ng with additional assaults upon the two, both in the car and at the 77th Street station where they are booked and sent into the felony tank without ever being advised of their constitutional rights. On the night of their arrest, they are taken to the Morningside Hospital, warned not to say anything out of line and give n treatment for their injuries including an open wound on JAMES eye. The origin al felony charge of assault on a police officer was reduced to three misdemeanor charges- disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and battery, of which they wer e later found guilty. AUGUST 7th

L.A.P.D. officers without reasonable, probable or any cause, and without a warra nt, stopped a car with occupants ANTHONY QUISENBERRY, AL ARMOUR, LESTER ANTHONY and WAYNE PHARR, all Los Angeles Panthers. One officer drew his gun and told WA YNE PHARR that next time he better have one. All except ARMOUR, who was arrested f or outstanding traffic warrants, were released. Shortly afterward those release d were again stopped without legal cause by different officers and then released . AUGUST 9th Los Angeles Panthers ROBERT CRENSHAW, LEONARD D. SMITH and RICHARD WRIGHT were a rrested without legal cause on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon on a pol ice officer. At the preliminary hearing the charge was dismissed because of ins ufficiency of the evidence.

JULY 26th In San Diego, the John Savage Memorial FBCP moves ahead despite vandals who brok e into the church and destroyed food. AUGUST 15th

In San Diego Panther SYLVESTER BELL is shot and killed by US members. The FBCP i s closed due to shootings. SEPTEMBER 2nd San Diego police fire bullets and gas rockets into a Panther home for 45 minutes . People in the community throw bottles and rocks at police. Officers in turn ki ck down citizens doors and beat the people. SEPTEMBER 5th Los Angeles Panther DAVID RANEY without legal cause was arrested on a charge of ha ving no I.D. He was later released and all charges dropped. SEPTEMBER 8th Los Angeles Panthers GEORGE SMITH, LEMUEL JAMES, MELVIN JOHNSON, WALTER TOURE POP E and BRUCE EDWARDS, are at the Watts office feeding children for the Breakfast program when armed police storm the office, terrorizing children, and arrest the Panthers without legal cause on charges of possession of illegal weapons and su spicion of murder. They are held for periods varying from one to three days and are released and charges dropped. SEPTEMBER 8th Los Angeles Panthers ALTHEA McZEAL and VIRGIL SMITH were arrested without legal cause on suspicion of robbery and questioned. ALTHEA McZEAL was released and ch arges were dropped. VIRGIL SMITH was charged with a traffic violation and the o

ther charges were dropped. SEPTEMBER 8th At about 7am at 10313 Hickory Street where the Party Breakfast Program for child ren was in active progress, 25 to 30 police officers without legal cause and wit hout any warrant walked into the room, where about thirty children were eating b reakfast, with drawn shotguns and in a threatening manner ordered the children t o leave. They then spilled all the milk and destroyed all the food in the room and made it impossible to continue with the breakfast program for several days. SEPTEMBER 11th In San Diego Panthers GLORIA GREEN, PLEZ BOLDEN, DEBORAH DeROWEN, and GLORIA BOL TEN are arrested on armed robbery charges, Their case is later dismissed. SEPTEMBER 11th Los Angeles Panther ALBERT ARMOUR, while riding in the yellow ban commonly used by Party members, together with Los Angeles Panthers BRUCE RICHARDS, WALTER TOUR E POPE, and DANIEL RANEY without legal cause is stopped by police officers and pl aced under arrest. Party member ARMOUR without legal cause is charged with susp icion of burglary and receiving stolen goods, take to the police station and int errogated for four hours, during which period his repeated requests for a lawyer were denied. He was held for five days, the charges were dropped, and he was r eleased. SEPTEMBER 11th Los Angeles Panther BRUCE RICHARDS is arrested without legal cause on a charge of n o I.D. The charge was dropped and he was released. SEPTEMBER 12th In Los Angeles, Panther NATHANIEL CLARK is murdered.

SEPTEMBER 12th In San Diego, Panther GLORIA SHIELDS is arrested for selling BPP newspaper. SEPTEMBER 14th Los Angeles Panther CHARLES JAMES was arrested without legal cause on a charge of n o I.D. The charge was dropped and he was released. SEPTEMBER 14th Los Angeles Panther WALTER TOURE POPE, was arrested without legal cause on the ch arge of harboring a fugitive. The charges were dropped and he was released.

SEPTEMBER 16th Los Angeles Panther BRUCE RICHARDS is arrested with our legal cause on a charge of suspicion of robbery. The charges were dropped and he was released. SEPTEMBER 17th Los Angeles Panthers WALTER RAY POPE, CLENDA HOESPHS, BRENDA FRANK, ROBERT BRYAN and CRAIG WILLIAMS were arrested without legal cause on charges of suspicion of robbery. They are held for varying periods of time and the charges are then dr opped and they are all released. SEPTEMBER 19th Los Angeles Panthers HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN, CRAIG WILLIAMS, ALBERT ARMOUR, CHARL ES JAMES and GEORGE DUCK SMITH were in an automobile in a service station in Watts . A patrol car pulled up alongside with four officers in it, two of who with th eir guns drawn approached said PARTY members while two others officers stood alo ngside the patrol car holding shotguns. After said members were ordered out of their car, two other patrol cars pulled up at the station. All five members wer e searched and there were allowed to leave and two were taken down to the police station because they didnt have I.D. cards. When CHRISTIAN, one of the ones rel eased stated, Thats how the fascist pigs act, he was arrested and booked for distur bing the peace, held for a couple of days, released on bail and the charge was d ismissed at the trial. The aforesaid conduct on the part of the police officers is without any legal cause whatsoever. SEPTEMBER 20th Ten San Diego Panthers are arrested on suspicion of armed robbery; the charges a re later dropped. SEPTEMBER 26th L.A.P.D. officers arrested Los Angeles Panthers HAROWESE MOORE and JAMES JOHNSON on a disturbing the peace charge for playing a record player too loud. The sai d officers broke into the Watts PARTY office at 28110 East 103rd Street, and arr ested the above named persons without a warrant and without informing them of th e charge or of the complaining person in the neighborhood. They told JAMES JOHN SON that they wished he has a gun so they could kill him, and they put the handc uffs on so tightly that is caused JOHNSON great and severe pain. SEPTEMBER 26th In Los Angeles, 6 Panthers are arrested for suspicion of burglary and stolen goo ds. The charges are later dropped. OCTOBER At or about midnight, Los Angles Panthers CRAIG WILLIAMS and BRENDA FRANK are de livering groceries to the PARTY Breakfast Program on Hickory Street in a van ow ned by Don Freed and driven with his permission. As they were near the school, they are suddenly surrounded by a large number of police officers coming out fr om hiding places all around the school. They had guns drawn and lights shining

on the two PARTY members. One of the officers said, We ought to kill him. Lets t ake him around in the back. The officers asked the PARTY members if they had per mission to use Don Freeds car, and they replied that they had. BRENDA FRANK is p regnant and told the police officers that she might have miscarriage as a result of their conduct. The reply was that she could just stop over to the side and have it right there. PARTY member WILLIAMS is then handcuffed and taken to ther e. PARTY member WILLIAMS is then handcuffed and taken to the 77th Street police station from which the police officers telephoned Don Freed for the purpose of confirming the members statement that they had permission to drive the van and fi nally released WILLIAMS after holding him about a total of two hours. Before ta king the said PARTY member to the police station, one of the officers held a gun in his neck and ordered him to knock on the door of the school and called out t o see if anybody was there. The officer told WILLIAMS if anything started to ha ppen he would be the first to get it. WILLIAMS knocked as ordered and no one an swered. All of this conduct on the part of the police was part of the plan to h arass PARTY members and was done without any cause or justification whatsoever. The officers occupied the said PARTY headquarters for that night and the next n ight. The police officers stated that they werent going to let any PARTY member in and would kill any PARTY member who tried to get in. OCTOBER Los Angles Panthers CRAIG WILLIAMS, ROBERT BRYAN and ISIAH HOUSTON were driving in a car when they were stopped by a squad car and ordered out of their car at t he point of a gun, told to hold their hands up high and required to furnish thei r I.D.s. The officers then proceeded to search the van, all without a warrant or any cause therefore and in the course thereof ripped out certain wires in the v an. The officers ran a make on the three members and found that CRAIG WILLIAMS had an outstanding traffic warrant. The other two were released but WILLIAMS wa s taken to the Wilshire police station where he was held for a considerable time and later released. On the way to the station, the police officer said to WILL IAMS that he was used as a paper boy and that DAVID HILLIARD and BOBBY SEALE wer e just making money off the PARTY members.

OCTOBER 18th Los Angeles Panther WALTER TOURE POPE is murdered by Los Angeles metro squad in br oad daylight as he attempts to ambush two officers. OCTOBER 21st About 30 police officers dressed all in black without legal cause attacked a PAR TY community center at Hickory and 103rd Streets in Watts at a time when there w as no one in the center. The police officers hot tear gas inside the house and garage and the attic of the house, spattered eggs against the walls, spilled mil k all over the floor and destroyed bread and other food. OCTOBER 22 Los Angeles Panthers JAMES JOHNSON, HAROWESE MOORE AND GWEN GOODLOE were at the Watts PARTY office and a record of Eldridge Cleaver entitled, Dig is being played . During the evening police officers are coming by and asking people if the rec ords is too loud or whether it bothered them, receiving repeated negative respon ses. Thereafter, a group of police officers numbering approximately eighteen en

tered the said office without a warrant, over the protest of the said PARTY memb ers, said police officers having their guns drawn. The police, their arms bent behind their backs, grab the PARTY members present and they are beaten and choke d. The women PARTY members are searched roughly, by male police officers, claim ing they are looking for some keys. And all three members are taken to the 77th Street police station and booked for disturbing the peace. Thereafter, there i s a jury trial on these charges, which ended up in a mistrial, and the charges a re thereafter dismissed. NOVEMBER 12th In Los Angeles, a community meeting is in progress to finalize plans for the Bun chy Carter Free Health Clinic when 75 police raid the BPP office. The doctors, nurses and other community leaders present shocked the officers who retreat. NOVEMBER 12th Over forty police officers surrounded PARTY headquarters at 4115 Central Avenue. A dozen of them had their guns drawn. Without reasonable, probable, or any ca use, the police asserted that fugitives from a charge of selling papers on the s treet are being hidden in the house There are four women and three children pre sent inside the house. The police remained an hour with guns drawn, and then de parted without making any arrests. NOVEMBER 19th Los Angeles Panthers JOHN WASHINGTON and MIKE LYNEM are arrested without legal cause on a charge of suspicion of robbery. The charges are dropped and they are released. NOVEMBER 19th Los Angeles Panthers PAUL REDD and JACKIE JOHNSON were arrested without legal ca use on a charge of no I.D. The charges were dropped and they are released. NOVEMBER 24th More than 25 members of the POLICE DEPARTMENT stopped and searched Los Angeles P anthers ALBERT ARMOUR and WAYNE PHARR, without reasonable, probable, or any caus e and without a warrant. After a warrant check was made by the police officers, ALBERT ARMOUR is arrested and handcuffed and taken in on an outstanding traffic warrant, and WAYNE PHARR was released. NOVEMBER 28th At approximately 10:00 p.m. about 200 police officers surrounded the PARTY headq uarters on Central Avenue. At that time a meeting was going on in said office w ith about 50 persons in attendance, including several children. The officers se t up guns around the headquarters. The person inside turned out the lights and lay down on the floor. About 45 minutes later the Watch Commander from the New ton Street police station telephoned the PARTY headquarters and asked what was w rong. One of the members told him that police with guns are surrounding the off ice and that there are women and children in the office and they wanted to leave in safety. The Watch Commander said, We thought we saw somebody in the window w

ith a gun and we were just checking it out. The police officers stayed for about an hour more and then gradually withdrew. There was no basis for the claim tha t someone stood in the window with a gun. DECEMBER 4th In Chicago, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark are viciously murdered by police while they sleep. DECEMBER 8th An assembled squad in excess of 350 police officers made simultaneous raids on t hree PARTY headquarters and residences in the City of Los Angeles, one on South Central Avenue, another on Exposition Boulevard and the third on West 55th Stree t. The raids are coordinated to all take place at 5:30 a.m. The 55th Street re sidence was entered without any announcement by the police and by kicking the do or down and firing into the residence indiscriminately. Five members are arrest ed therein although for only one person, ELMER PRATT, is there an arrest warrant . The others arrested is SANDRA PRATT, JOHN WASHINGTON, KATHY KIMBOROUGH and EV ON CARTER. EVON CARTERs 8-year old daughter, Michelle, and 8-month old son, Osce ola, were also taken to the police station and held for about two hours. The Exposition Boulevard residence is entered without an announcement or warning and entry is made by battering in the door and simultaneously firing tear gas c anisters into the house, driving all four of its occupants therefore. The Central Avenue headquarters is entered by battering the door down and the of ficers entering firing their weapons at the front door and simultaneously firing down into the office through a skylight on the roof. The alleged reason for entry of all three places is two arrest warrants where th e sole crime involved is the alleged pointing of a firearms at a police officer, which said firearms is not fired and no threats to fire is made by the persons allegedly pointing the firearms. A search warrant had been issued to search fo r the weapons used in the aforementioned crimes and, in addition, to look for stol en machine guns. The police had secured a warrant to search for machine guns, w hich they contended, had been stolen by a member of the PARTY from the Camp Pend leton Marine Base. The officer signing the affidavit willfully and deliberately misled the court into thinking that a PARTY member, GEORGE YOUNG, had stolen th e weapons when he knew at the time of signing the affidavit that the said PARTY member is in the Marine Stockade at the time of the theft and could not have sto len the weapons. There has been a consistent denial of equal protection of the law in the handlin g of bail for these PARTY members. For example, ELMER PRATT is held on $100, 00 0 bail recommended by the District Attorneys office arising out of the December 8 shoot-out in spite of the fact that he is not present at the shoot-out and did not participate therein. His wife, SANDRA, is held on a $50,000 bail, recommend ed by said office, even though she is arrested in her home in bed asleep and the only evidence against her is a photograph where she allegedly is holding an ill egal weapon. This photograph is seized in the raid on the 55th Street residence without a warrant to search for anything other than weapons. At all residences and headquarters in the December 8 raids, all of the filing cabinets, party lit erature, party documents and other such materials is seized through not listed i

n the warrant, the warrant being restricted solely to weapons.

DECEMBER 10th Los Angeles Local Union 535, Social Services Workers Union, passes a resolution to protest the political murders of Panthers across the country and to demand t he release of all political prisoners. DECEMBER 10th Friends of Panthers, a coalition of community groups, holds a mass protest rally at City Hall to denounce the invasion of police offers into the black community . DECEMBER 20th Near Central Avenue and 42nd Street in Los Angeles, PARTY member, EDDIE LEE GRIF FIN, JOHN WASHINGTON and FRED NOLAN were stopped without legal cause while ridin g in an automobile in the area of Central Avenue and 42nd Street in Los Angeles. Two police officers ordered them out of the car, searched them and searched th e car, all without legal cause or a warrant. Several other patrol cars surround ed the said PARTY members during the period of time they were being searched. I n the course of the search, the police officers found a diagram of the Watts off ice of the PARTY, which diagram the Party members are taking to their lawyers. The PARTY member are handcuffed and taken to the Newton Street police station an d put into separate cells, after being booked without legal cause for grand thef t of the automobile they are using. The PARTY members had told the police offic ers that the registration of the car is in the glove compartment but the police officers refused to look at it. After being detained for several hours, the sai d PARTY members are released and the charges dropped. At the time that member, GIFFIN, is released, he is told by one of the police officers that he had 30 sec onds to get out of the building or that he would be arrested and that the office r would beat his ass. DECEMBER 22nd Los Angeles Panther, ALBERT ARMOUR, was stopped for an alleged traffic violation and is arrested, charged with disturbing the peace and on a traffic warrant and is taken to jail from which he is bailed out the same day. When he went to cou rt on the case it is dismissed, there having been no basis therefore in the firs t instance. DECEMBER 27th In Los Angeles, the Bunchy Carter Free Health Clinic opens. 1970 JANUARY Los Angles Panther EVON CARTER, and two other PARTY members along with the eight -year old son of one of them, are riding in a rented car. They are stopped by p olice officers and all taken into custody for grand theft auto, all without lega

l cause. They are hold for five hours and then released with no charges being f iled. JANUARY Los Angles Panthers CHRISTIAN, GRIFFIN and VAN Taylor went to the area of Manch ester and Broadway in Los Angeles in order to pick up some furniture which had b een donated to the PARTY. While so engaged the said members were place in custo dy by member of the Los Angeles Police Department, taken into an alleyway where they are hold for close to an hour, threatened, and questioned about many thing s including their membership in the PARTY. They are then taken to the 77th Stre et police station, handcuffed to chairs and told they are being held for investi gation for burglary. Among other things one of the officers said, We killed TOUR E (a PARTY member who had been killed by the police) and one of these days Ill gi ve you a gun so you can shot us in the back and then youll get your chance to get to that great ghetto in the sky. The officers kept calling said members names a nd after about an hour and a half the police officers returned the three PARTY m embers to the place where they had been placed in custody, the PARTY MEMBERS bei ng kept in handcuffs at all times until they are released. No charges are filed against them and there is absolutely no legal basis for the action taken agains t the members. The police officers told the PARTY members on that occasion that what is done on that occasion is part of police policy. JANUARY 4th Los Angles Panther JAMES JOHNSON is in an automobile on Santa Barbara Avenue alo ng with PARTY members FRED NOLAN and RUSSELL WASHINGTON. They were surrounded b y police officers in squad cars and told to get out of the car and they are sear ched. Although there is no warrant or any cause therefore, they searched the car, tore the lock off the truck and tore up the seats in their search. PARTY m ember JAMES JOHNSON is told that there are warrants for murder, counterfeiting a nd traffic offenses outstanding against him, and he is taken to jail where he is kept for several hours until he is bailed out, all of the charges except those on the traffic warrants, the case is dismissed against him because as the office rs well know he is not the JAMES JOHNSON against whom said warrants are outstand ing. On the same occasion, PARTY member RUSSELL WASHINGTON is arrested and put in the drunk tank without any basis therefore whatsoever. JANUARY 6th Free The L.A. 18 Demonstration Rally is held at the Los Angeles Hall Of Justice t o support the Panthers busted in the Dec. 8th attack on the B.P.P. Thouands from the community show up to support and hear speakers David Hilliard, Angela Davis, Alvert Armour, and Julian Dixon. JAUNUARY 8th Twelve cars of police officers with guns drawn without legal cause stopped CHRIS TOPHER MEANS and arrested him on a charge of possession of a stolen vehicle. Th e charges are later dropped. JANUARY 8th The police without legal cause impounded an automobile owned by ELMER G. PRATT.

JANUARY 13th Los Angeles Panthers HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN along with EDDIE GRIFFIN is driving t he PARTY van which is filled with medical equipment which had been donated to th e plaintiff. Without legal cause he is stopped by a number of policemen who app roached him with pistols drawn, searched and handcuffed him, and then without a warrant searched the van and the PARTY Community Center at 113th Street. The va n, which belonged to a friend of the PARTY and is being used with his permission , is impounded without legal cause. Said CHRISTIAN is then taken to the 77th St reet police station and without legal cause charged with suspicion of burglary. JIMMY BROWN, the donor, came to the police station and verified the fact of the donation. They then booked HENRY DAVID CHRISTIAN without legal cause for posses sion of hypodermic needles and syringes. As the station POLICE OFFICERS PHILLI PS laughed at said member CHIRSTIAN and told him he would do him in if he ran in to him again and asked him where he had been dismissed without trial. On the sa me occasion, EDDIE GRIFFIN is also arrested without any cause whatsoever, taken to the police station and thereafter released. The police officers said they wi shed a certain other member of the PARTY is there so they could shoot him and ta lked of planting marijuana on the arrestees. JANUARY 15th Los Angeles Panthers JOHN ALEASE RINGGOLD and GILBERT PARKER are driving a 1958 Chevrolet owned by PARTY member, MICHAEL D. PENNEWELL with his permission. They are stopped without legal cause by a number of police, told to get out of the c ar and put their hands up on the car. They are then handcuffed and thrown in t he police car and taken to the Firestone station, during the course of which eve nt member PARKER is struck in the mouth by the police and the door of the car is intentionally slammed shut on the foot of member RINGGOLD by one of the officer s. During the drive to the station, on of the officers kept saying that he alwa ys wanted to kill a Panther and that the Panthers were crazy niggers. At the stat ion an officer started beating member PARKER in the presence of member RINGOLD w hile another police officer was holding her. Member PARKER is repeatedly kicked in the thigh, stomach and lower leg, slapped in the mouth, kneed in the neck an d face and slammed face forward against the wall. Member RINGGOLD said to the p olice officer holding her, Dont you see whats happening? He replied, I dont see anyt hing and neither do you. The said members are held until Tuesday, January 20, wi thout ever being taken before a magistrate and then are released after the offic ers told member RINGGOLD that they knew the car wasnt stolen. While member RINGG OLD is confined in jail her shoes were taken away and she is required to go bare foot on the cold and hard floor and required to go long periods of time without food. The said 1958 Chevrolet is impounded by the police without any legal caus e therefore. JANUARY 16th A number of PARTY members, including JAMES JOHNSON are in an automobile near 10 3rd and Wilmington streets. The car is stopped and all of the persons in the ca r are told by the police officers to go across the street. They are required to identify themselves and JOHNSON is taken to the 77th Street police station afte r being told by the police that they have warrants for JAMES JOHNSON for murder, counterfeiting and traffic violations. As is in fact know to the police office rs who arrested JAMES JOHNSON, the said warrants are not for PARTY member JAMES JOHNSON who are arrested. After being detained for several hours, all without a ny cause or justification whatsoever, said JAMES JOHNSON was released.

JANUARY 17th Los Angeles Panther BOBBY BROWN is on the way to the PARTY office and is stopped by police officers at the corner of Anzac and Century Streets. He is approache d by several police officers with their guns drawn and they asked for his I.D., which he did not have. The officers then said they are going to take him to jai l but before they did so, they gave him a ticket for crossing the street outside of a crosswalk. He is held in custody for several hours and then released with out any further action being taken against him. While he is in custody he is re peatedly questioned about the whereabouts of PARTY member RUSSELL WASHINGTON and when he said that he didnt know, he is kicked by police officers about the butto cks and about the head and told they are going to kill mother fucking Russell. JANUARY 21st Two police officers threatened PARTY members GRIFFIN and TONY QUISENBERRY with t heir guns, required them to produce their I.D.s and then permitted them to leave under circumstances in which none of the said members had done or appeared to ha ve done anything illegal or anything warranting any police inquiry. Two days la ter, a police car with a loud speaker passed by the PARTY headquarters near whic h the detention had occurred saying over the loud speaker things like, Eddie Grif fin, come on out. We are out here waiting for you. FEBRUARY Los Angeles Panther BOBBY BROWN is walking down 103rd street from the PARTY offi ce to the Community Center with another PARTY member, when they are followed by a police car which would speed up every time they would try to cross the street. Said PARTY member finally managed to get across the street and as they did the police officers jumped out of the car which had been harassing them with their guns drawn and aimed them at the heads of said members. Another police car drov e up and said members are holding front of the cars wit their hand above their h eads with one of the police officers saying to the others, Its some more Panthers. Then another one said, Dont you know you two will be the firs to die? or words to that effect. Another one said, You wan to fight, itll be one against one, all whi le guns are being aimed at the heads of the said members. After being held thus for a while and harassed, the police officers finally said, Well you all can go now, and allowed them to leave without making any arrest or taking any other act ion. FEBRUARY Los Angeles Panthers RINGGOLD and ALBERT ARMOUR are stopped by the police and to ld that they had made a faulty lane change, which is untrue. The police officer said if would take about an hour to run a check on the car and they are hold fo r about an hour by the police and then released without charges. FEBRUARY 8th Los Angeles Panther EDDIE GRIFFIN is ordered by POLICE OFFICER VASQUEZ to come t o the police officers squad car, on which the said officer told GRIFFEN to over to the car, grabbed the hat off the members head and threw it on the roof of the car and threw his I.D. down on the ground, making threatening remarks such as, Do nt you fuck with me. You PanthersI am afraid Im going to kill one some day. Said m ember had one nothing whatsoever that was illegal or that in any way warranted t he action taken against him.

FEBRUARY 9th Los Angeles Panther BOBBY BROWN is selling PARTY papers when he is approached b y two police officers and told that they are going to arrest him for burglary. They said they saw him going into a ladys yard and BROWN said that he went in th ere to leave her a paper. The officers then said they would arrest him for smart talking. BROWN replied that they had no right to do that and they would arrest him for contributing to delinquency of minors because he had been talking to som e little girls who wanted to buy a paper and he had been telling them about the breakfast program on the Panthers. Then some person came by and asked what the trouble was and the police officers said, You get on out of here, and allowed the member to leave. FEBRUARY 17th Several Los Angeles Panther members including RINGGOLD and ALBERT ARMOUR left Pa rty headquarters about 2:00 a.m.. They are then stopped while driving for alleg edly driving down the middle of the street. They are held by police officers fo r 45 minutes, the car is searched without a warrant and each of the members are interrogated. They are then released. All of this is done without any cause of any kind whatsoever. MARCH 24th Los ANgeles Panther ROGER BLUE LEWIS receives ten years in prison on trumped-up ch arges stemming from the Panther roundup following the murders of BUNCHY CARTER a nd JOHN HUGGINS. JULY 14th J. Edgar Hoover makes the statement ...the Black Panther Party is the greatest th reat to the national security in the history of this nation. JULY 27th The L.A.P.D. storm the BPP office. AUGUST 7th JONATHAN JACKSON a member of SNCC, close friend of the L.A. Panthers, and brothe r of incarcerated Panther GEORGE JACKSON, travels to a Marin county Courthouse i n San Rafael, California, in an attempt to free his brother from court. His bro thers court date changed, JONATHAN instead liberates the other defendants in courtJAMES McCLAIN, WILLIAM CHRISTMAS, and RUCHELL McGEE. They take a prosecutor, a nd three jurors hostage. All three gunmen except RUCHELL McGEE are killed along with the judge by police. AUGUST 11th Several Los ANgeles Panther are given 60 days in jail for selling the Partys news paper.

SEPTEMBER 26th Los Angeles Panthers sponsor a youth conference. 1971 JANUARY 23rd Huey Newton expels Los Angeles Panthers ELMER GERONIMO PRATT and his wife SANDRA PRATT as well as Panthers on trial in New York known as the New York 21. FEBRUARY Huey Newton and Eldrige Cleaver disagree on San Francisco talk show. Newton exp els Cleaver and the entire wing of the International BPP for his criticism of th e expulsion of Geronimo and the New York 21. MARCH Eldridge Cleaver expels Huey Newton and David Hilliard from the BPP. AUGUST 21st George Jackson is assassinated in San Quentin Prison. THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER IS EXPELLED BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 1972 JUNE In Los Angeles, Elmer Geronimo Pratt is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. 1974 AUGUST Huey Newton flees to Cuba from murder charges in the U.S. He appoints ELAINE BR OWN Party Leader. 1976 The Senate Intelligence Committee discloses the FBI report documenting its work to neutralize the Party. 1977

Huey Newton returns to the United States from Cuba. 1989 Huey Newton is killed in West Oakland. 1997 GERONIMO PRATT is freed from prison because a judge ruled that his trial was unf air. NOTE: THIS TIMELINE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.