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Cointel Pro 25 Years Later: New York Settles with Former Black Panther who was Wrongly Imprisoned (Part 2)

On the 19th of May, 1971, two New York City police officers were wounded in a burst of machine gunfire while standing guard outside the home of the Manhattan district attorney, Frank Hogan. Two years later, after two hung juries, a Black Panther leader, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, was convicted of the crime by a jury that deliberated for less than one hour. He was sentenced to 25 years to life. Nineteen years later, a court found that he had been convicted with fabricated evidence and he was released from prison. [includes rush transcript]

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