Did Police Assassinate A Black Panther Leader_ _ The New Detectives

A pre-dawn raid. Ninety-nine bullets fired by police. Only one shot fired from inside the apartment. And a Black Panther leader drugged and murdered in his bed. Was Fred Hampton's death an assassination?On December 4, 1969, fourteen Chicago police officers raided the apartment of Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party [citation:1]. The police claimed the Panthers fired first. But ballistics evidence told a different story: officers fired as many as ninety-nine shots, while Panthers fired only one round that hit the ceiling [citation:5]. Hampton's fiancée Deborah Johnson described how police pulled her from the room as Hampton lay unconscious, drugged by an FBI informant who had slipped secobarbital into his drink [citation:5]. She heard an officer say He is still alive. Then she heard two gunshots [citation:4][citation:6][citation:7]. Another officer declared He is good and dead now.The FBI's COINTELPRO program had targeted Hampton as the greatest threat to national security [citation:2]. Informant William O'Neal received a $200 bonus and was relocated under the Witness Protection Program [citation:1][citation:5]. Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the question is not whether Hampton was killed. The question is who ordered the hit.