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Zalatix

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4. They should call it "THIS! IS! SPARTA!! 300 in Reverse"

Reply to EFerrari (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 05:28 PM

Jun 2012

"Eleven people ... the majority of them teenagers, 19 and under, in a five-hour shootout with over 300 police officers, including SWAT," Everett said. "It's SWAT's first public mission and they break out 16 millimeter film cameras to film the event, no one is murdered, and they (the Panthers) eventually beat the case ... this is the climax of the Black Power Movement in America."

300 cops, including 40 SWAT, couldn't take down just 19 people, and those 19 won in court? That's just awesome beyond words.

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