How The Death of Fred Hampton Affect His Fiancee'

 The following is what Njeri remembered about that horrible and unusual use of state force: “I looked up and saw gunshots coming from what appeared to be the front of the flat and the kitchen area in the back.” Bullets were being fired into the bed frame. I immediately knew it was over when I saw the flashes of light and felt the bed vibrate. It was like everything had come to a grinding halt..... See more in coment section

At some point, the firing came to a halt. Fred didn’t move for a long time. I made my way out with my hands raised. There were two lines of police officers that I had to get through. A member of their group grabbed my robe and opened it for me. At the time, I was eight and a half months pregnant. “Well, what do you know about that. “We have a pregnant broad on our hands,” said another officer, grabbing me by the hair and hurling me into the kitchen.

Hampton with her pregnant body, and dragged her into another room. She then heard the police execute her fiancée As summarized by lawyer Jeffrey Haas, “Johnson heard one officer ask, ‘Is he [Fred Hampton] still alive?’ After two gunshots were fired inside the room, the other officer said, ‘He’s good and dead now.’”[8] It was later confirmed that Hampton had never been fully conscious, had never left his bed, and “had been shot at close range, with two bullets to the head.

After two gunshots were fired inside the room, the other officer said, ‘He’s good and dead now. It was later confirmed that Hampton had never been fully conscious, had never left his bed, and “had been shot at close range, with two bullets to the head.

Immediately after the event, the authorities, led by State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan and the police claimed many things, namely that the assassination had been a “shoot-out,” that Fred Hampton himself had fired on them, and that he had been killed by the bullets the police had sprayed across the room.These statements would all prove to be false. The Black Panthers countered this narrative by opening the rooms to the public and letting journalists examine them, exposing and driving home the level of violence that was used against them. This led to the discovery, published by the Chicago Tribune, that the bullet holes,

supposedly caused by the Black Panthers’ bullets, were in fact from nails used to post materials to the door, thus causing a furor. This was essential and proved to many a Panther’s innocence. 

This premeditated plot was concealed for many years until, after a great deal of struggle, it was brought out into open court.[13]  It would later come to light that the FBI and Chicago police colluded to execute Hampton and exchanged memos containing information, instructions, and directions, all for the purpose of destroying the Black Panther Party and other such movements. Crucially, these memos also included vital information about O’Neal’s role in the conspiracy.[14] One of the main reasons for this assassination was that the government feared that Hampton’s effectiveness toward the success of the Black Panthers’ political aims. Hampton had a magnetic personality and the unique ability to unite people from many different walks of life. There was fear that he would be an “African-American messiah who they [the government] believed would lead an African-American revolt.”[15] This assassination was part of a wider movement across the country among local police and the FBI to quell the Black Panther Party through the systematic elimination of prominent leaders within the party. Fred Hampton’s assassination was one of the most prominent examples of this targeting.