On this day, Dec. 4, in 1969, Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were shot and killed by Chicago police officers.
The pre-dawn raid came less than a month after two police officers were killed in an ambush. The FBI asserted that the Black Panthers had been responsible.
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