Hampton v. City of Chicago

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1973-08-24

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STEVENS, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs allege that 14 Chicago police officers raided an apartment at 2337 West Monroe Street at 4:15 A.M. on December 4, 1969, for the purpose of killing Mark Clark and Fred Hampton and punishing seven other residents of the apartment because they were black and had exercised their First Amendment rights as members of the Black Panther Party. They also allege that 15 other defendants conspired to…

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