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Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, dies in Tanzania
June 2, 2011 | 7:36 pm
Elmer G. "Geronimo" Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit and whose case became a symbol of racial injustice during the turbulent 1960s, has died. He was 63.
Pratt died at his home in a small village in Tanzania, where he had been living with his wife and child, according to Stuart Hanlon, a San Francisco attorney who helped overturn Pratt's murder conviction. Hanlon said he was informed of the death by Pratt's sister.
Pratt's case became a cause celebre for elected officials, Amnesty International, clergy and celebrities who believed he was framed by the government because he was African American and a member of the Black Panthers.
"Geronimo was a powerful leader," Hanlon told The Times. "For that reason he was targeted."
Pratt was convicted in 1972 and sentenced to life in prison for the 1968 fatal shooting of Caroline Olsen and the serious wounding of her husband, Kenneth, in a robbery that netted $18. The case was overturned in 1997 by an Orange County Superior Court judge who ruled that prosecutors at Pratt's murder trial had concealed evidence that could have led to his acquittal.
Pratt maintained that the FBI knew he was innocent because the agency had him under surveillance in Oakland when the murder was committed in Santa Monica.
Photo: Elmer G. Pratt (left)
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Former Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver appearing on Meet The Press in 1976.
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The Aztlan Media Kollective interviews Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. He talks openly about the influence the Black Panther Party had in the formation of the POCC. Fred Hampton Jr. also gives a street level political analysis of the current global economic system. Explaining how it can affect us at a local level.The Aztlan Media Kollective interviews Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC)... more
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The Aztlan Media Kollective interviews Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. He talks openly about the influence the Black Panther Party had in the formation of the POCC. Fred Hampton Jr. also gives a street level political analysis of the current global economic system. Explaining how it can affect us at a local level.The Aztlan Media Kollective interviews Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC)... more
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movie time this is about a great revolutionary who founded the black panther party for self defensemovie time this is about a great revolutionary who founded the black panther party... more
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You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
Prohibition didn't stop liquor use; the drug laws can't stop drug use. Making gun ownership illegal will not stop gun ownership.
The primary victim of these misguided efforts is the honest citizen whose civil rights are trampled as frustrated legislators and police tighten the screws.
Banning guns will make guns more expensive and give organized crime a great opportunity to make profits in a new black market for weapons. Street violence will increase in new turf wars. Criminals will not give up their guns. But, many law abiding citizens will, leaving them defenseless against armed bandits.
Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
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During our interviews with Former Panthers Ronald Freeman and Muhammed Mubarack, the men reminisced about the group.
They also put into perspective what it is like to have lived during that era, and then witness the election of a Black man to lead a government they had once so despised.During our interviews with Former Panthers Ronald Freeman and Muhammed Mubarack, the... more
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