special agent mitchell fbi welcome to
watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 things
judas and the black messiah got
factually right at one point for me he
was like a role model
the black panthers are the single
greatest threat to our national security
alex rackley
no he did for this list we're looking at
plot points from this biopic
that remained faithful to the lives of
fred hampton william o'neill
and everyone in between in case you
haven't seen this powerful film yet
keep in mind there will be spoilers what
did you think of judas and the black
messiah
let us know in the comments number 10.
william o'neill was a car thief
fbi that's right when we're introduced
to o'neill he poses as an fbi agent who
uses his fake badge to steal a car
the guys at the pool hall catch on to
o'neill's ruse leading to his arrest
although a few liberties are taken it's
not too far from the truth
according to o'neill he stole a car with
a buddy one night
they drove it to michigan and after
shooting some pool the two had an
accident and took a bus back to chicago
my recruitment by the fbi was very
efficient
very simple really um i'd stole a car
and went joyriding over the state limit
while o'neill wasn't arrested on the
spot
he was contacted by fbi agent roy martin
mitchell a few months later about the
stolen vehicle
tell me why the badge
why not just use a knife or a gun like a
normal
car thief mitchell eventually told
o'neill that the charges against him
would be dropped
if he infiltrated the black panther
party
number nine free breakfast for children
evening brothers and sisters i wanted to
help you all to a new
free breakfast program over on the south
side next week
although the fbi painted fred hampton as
a criminal his goal was to make the
world a better place
one of the many ways he did this was
through the free breakfast for children
program
as seen in the movie launched by the
black panther party the program fed
thousands of hungry children on a daily
basis the illinois black panther party
has a mandate to feed every hungry kid
in chicago
in addition to organizing five breakfast
programs in chicago's west side
hampton aspired to help provide free
medical services nevertheless
the fbi claimed that the breakfast
program served as a way to brainwash
children
falsely calling it quote nefarious
activity
authorities would raid the program even
while kids were eating
not long after hampton's death black
panther co-founder huey p
newton would emphasize the importance of
the breakfast program
y'all don't see there's kids in here huh
of course you're gonna let you get to a
free breakfast program pull something
like this
bunch of cowards number eight jake
winter's death we educate
we nurture we feed and we lobby
perhaps we're here for more than just
walk with these bodies
one of the black panther members
prominently depicted in the film is
spurgeon
jake winters in an especially tense
sequence
an armed jake finds himself in a
shootout with the cops
at least two officers are shot dead
before jake is gunned down
winters did indeed die during a police
shootout on november 13th
1969 less than a month before hampton
met his tragic end
officers john j gilhooley and frank g
rappaport reportedly died during the
gunfight as well
whereas winters acts alone in the film
reports suggest that fellow panther
lawrence lance bell was also present
although he was only wounded in his
memory the panthers named a free medical
clinic after winters
number seven o'neill worked closely with
roy mitchell special agent mitchell
fbi while mitchell reportedly had nine
black panther informants prior to the
december 1969
raid o'neal easily had the biggest
impact
actors lakeith stanfield and jesse
plemons do an authentic job at capturing
their dynamic
or you can go home as the film depicts
mitchell wasn't just o'neill's main
contact of the fbi
o'neil visited mitchell's house met his
young child
and even had dinner with him developing
a relaxed rapport
o'neil went as far as to describe
mitchell as quote a role model
at one point for me he was like a role
model according to u.s district judge
charles cacoras quote he became like a
father to o'neill
and he trusted roy at a time when not
many people trusted anybody
the two collaborated on the floor plan
for hampton's apartment
earning o'neill a 300 bonus hey
roy boy how are you
number six hampton was arrested over ice
cream
uh he was uh accused of
uh taking 70 something dollars worth of
ice cream according to o'neill the fbi
attempted to find evidence of hampton
doing drugs
but they never could because he was
clean hampton would face
jail time however over 71 dollars worth
of ice cream bars
in late may fred hampton was sent to
prison
he had been convicted on a charge of
stealing 71
worth of ice cream bars he was accused
of stealing from a good humor ice cream
van in maywood
hampton testified that he wasn't at the
scene of the crime telling reporters
out of court quote i may be a pretty big
mother but i can't eat no 710 ice cream
bars
nevertheless he was convicted and
sentenced to two to five years
a punishment hampton found excessive and
unfair hampton didn't serve the full
time as he was eventually released on an
appeal bond
show some discipline that russia gave me
a lawyer
eight days before hampton's death the
illinois supreme court affirmed the
conviction
number five j edgar hoover's vendetta
martin sheen portrays fbi director j
edgar hoover as
a ruthless figure who will stop at
nothing to get hampton
off the streets i want him off the
street charge you with something
anything
but get his black ass off the street
sheen's chilling performance
isn't exaggerated hoover called the
black panther party quote the greatest
threat to the internal security of the
country
the black panthers are the single
greatest threat to our national security
more than the chinese even more than the
russians he also
issued a directive to quote prevent the
rise of a messiah who could unify and
electrify the militant black nationalist
movement
the fbi labelled hampton a quote radical
threat despite
lacking evidence to back up such claims
hampton wasn't the only prominent
african-american activist hoover
monitored
keeping a close eye on malcolm x and
muhammad ali as well
through cointelpro a quote dirty tricks
program
hoover targeted the nation of islam and
martin luther king jr's southern
christian leadership conference
along with the panthers number 4. attack
on panther office
during hampton's incarceration for the
ice cream robbery the police raided a
black paint their office
this snowballed into a shootout although
we're not sure if o'neill was present as
the film suggests
while fred hampton was in prison a
police raid on the panther office turned
into a shootout
in any case five officers and three
panthers were injured
but nobody died in addition to making
arrests the authorities purposely left
the office in a fiery state of disarray
to send a message
at the encouragement of black panther
co-founder bobby seal
the office was reopened shortly after
and the party began to rebuild
the community banded together to fix the
building up and soon enough
the office was back in business open it
up take all that boarding down
paint that place and the black panther
party members start working for a couple
of days the next thing you know the
community start bringing wood
paint and everything and open that black
panther party office
right back up number three george w
sam's jr was behind alex rackley's death
george sampson security captain for the
underwater champion
according to the film sam's and rackley
also infiltrated the black panther party
although sams and rackley were both
accused of secretly working with the
authorities
this remains unconfirmed either way
judas and the black messiah was right
about rackley's grim fate
sam's had rackley kidnapped and tortured
for two days at the new haven panther
office
at sam's request fellow panthers warren
kimbrough and lonnie mclucas
shot rackley dead alex rackley
no he did well he claims two other guys
with the trigger men but what's he gonna
say
during the 1970 new haven black panther
trials
sams testified that he acted on bobby
seal's orders
no additional evidence of seal's
involvement was found but he was
arrested and tried with erica huggins
ultimately seal and huggins were
acquitted while sams and kimbrough were
convicted
mclucas was also acquitted save a
conspiracy charge
number two o'neill was asked to drug
hampton
put that in his drink in addition to
drawing the floor plan for hampton's
apartment
o'neil is instructed to give him
barbiturates prior to the film's
climactic raid
check this out man i got this article i
want you to read right
yeah right it's an article in this paper
very important
i need you to let the chairman read it
tomorrow night
during a 1989 interview shortly before
taking his own life
o'neil was asked if hampton had been
drugged o'neil denied this
saying quote fred was the type of person
that you didn't have to drug anyway
fred was always tired however
barbiturates were found
in hampton's blood o'neal was at
hampton's apartment for a late dinner
and left around 1 30 a.m
i'm mistaken [ __ ] man no no it's all
good that's my mistake
no i guess i had the wrong guy sorry
about that
hampton was in the middle of talking to
his mother on the phone when he suddenly
fell asleep
not long after the raid commenced before
we unveil our top pick
here are some honorable mentions deborah
johnson's pregnancy
she was more than eight months pregnant
when tragedy struck
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hampton negotiated pacts he sought to
peacefully unite chicago's gangs
deputy jamming fred hampton or the
illinois black panther party
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number one fred hampton's death
i'm coming like the trial of the chicago
7
judas and the black messiah is accurate
in its depiction of hampton's death
at 4 a.m on december 4th 1969 a team of
police officers arrived at hampton's
monroe street residence
on december 4th at 4 45 in the morning
14 policemen 9 white and 5 black
raided the apartment 45 minutes later
they stormed the apartment with several
panthers inside
mark clark who stood guard with a
shotgun was killed as the heavily armed
cops riddled the apartment with bullets
a sedated hampton slept on a mattress
with deborah johnson
who was pulled out of their room by the
authorities as the team
entered hampton's bedroom two additional
shots could be heard
according to johnson one officer said
quote
he's good and dead now hampton died at
age 21
but his legacy would live on do you
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