They had permits for all their weapons and use the “stand your ground” law to fight off corrupt officers. It seems that everyone forgot that most cops didn’t like blacks; let alone wanting to protect them so who else can minorities go to when even the police are after them. Thus the Black Panther Party was born; but let’s look into the people that created the movement that is so infamous, who were the people responsible?
The combination of the increased use of police brutality and the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965; two college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense on October 15, 1966, in West Oakland (officially “Western Oakland,” a district of the city Oakland) California. Shortening to the Black Panther Party, the organization immediately sought to set itself apart from African American cultural nationalist organization, such as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Nation of Islam, to which it was commonly compared. One of the