″This is for members of the community and Panthers and neighborhood supporters,″ said Barbarette Newton, the victim’s sister-in-law. Organizers expect up to 2,000 mourners, including Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale. Marchers refused to speak to reporters, blaming them for media accounts that included descriptions of Newton as a gangster.įamily members continued to prepare for Newton’s funeral Monday in Oakland.
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The protesters marched two miles to City Hall and the Alameda County Courthouse, where supporters had chanted ″Free Huey″ during Newton’s 1968 trial for the death of an Oakland police officer. Officials in the FBI’s San Francisco office did not immediately return a telephone message Friday afternoon. Newton’s slaying prompted a noontime protest march Friday that started in the neighborhood where he was slain.Ībout 40 members of Uhuru House waved banners, carried placards with his photo and chanted, ″Who killed Huey? Don’t you tell no lie, it was the government, the government, the FBI.″įBI infiltration of the Black Panther Party had contributed to its gradual disintegration as the group, founded more than 20 years ago, drifted from operating ghetto social programs into violence and its members were killed. Police denied a report published Thursday that three men had been linked to the killing, but acknowledged for the first time that the men were arrested on weapons charges one block from where Newton was slain about 12 hours earlier. Two other men were arrested at the same time on weapons violations, but are not considered suspects in the case, Mercado said. He was questioned about Newton’s murder, but was not considered a prime suspect until Thursday. Robinson was arrested Tuesday for investigation of felony possession of a firearm about a block from the crime scene. There have been no other arrests in the case, Mercado said. Police said they had located several other witnesses who disputed Robinson’s account of the killing. Mercado said a man accompanying Robinson witnessed the shooting, but police did not divulge whether the man, arrested Friday for investigation of auto theft, backed up Robinson’s claim of self-defense.
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Investigators believe Newton stole drugs from the gang, including an instance earlier this summer when, Robinson said, he was robbed by Newton of 14 crack cocaine rocks valued at $160. Police said Newton had ″crossed″ the Black Guerilla Family several times in the past. Police said the two argued for about a minute. Police said Robinson told them Newton demanded drugs and that he refused to sell them to him. The killing occurred in a neighborhood where Newton, as minister of defense for the Black Panthers, once tried to set up social programs to help destitue blacks. Robinson contended Newton pulled a gun when the two met at a street corner in the drug-torn neighborhood, but investigators said they found no evidence Newton had been armed. Mercado said Newton argued with Robinson over a cocaine deal and that Robinson then shot the 47-year-old former leader of the black militancy movement in the 1960s. Mercado said Newton and Robinson have known each other for two years. Robinson, currently on parole for a robbery conviction, admitted to the killing early Friday and is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday, Mercado said. The Black Guerrilla Family is a prison-based gang that operates in the state’s maximum-security prisons, including San Quentin, where Newton served time, authorities said.
″He was a foot soldier and he wanted to be a shot caller. ″He wanted to be a high-mucky-muck,″ Mercado said later in an interview. Dan Mercado at a early evening news conference at the Oakland Hall of Justice. Robinson ″considered the murder a means to advance″ in the Black Guerrilla Family, a narcotics distribution gang, said Sgt. Investigators believe they recovered the 9mm pistol used in Newton’s killing, police said, but ballistics tests are still pending. Tuesday, hours after Newton’s predawn murder on a west Oakland sidewalk. Tyrone Robinson, 25, of Oakland was arrested on a weapons charge around 7 p.m. Newton, but claimed self-defense in killing the Black Panther founder, police said Friday. (AP) _ A man described by police as a drug dealer was arrested for investigation of murder in the death of Huey P.
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