Answer of the government

The Black Panthers, as a symbolic act, started to carry guns that everyone can see to all places. This act was legal in California, but the racist police and the FBI interpreted it as a threat so they began to act against them. The government never taken into account the good action of this group, such as the fact that they gave free food to people in need and also education. They only attack them as a terrorist organization.

Ending the 60´s the government created a campaingagainst the Black Panthers. They acussed them ofmurdering, other terrorist acts and of having relation with abroad people, enemies of the country, that can affect the interests of the United States.

In many cases the government acussed much of the members, including the creators Newton and Seale and the propaganda chief Eldridge Cleaver, of killing people. They went to prision a lot of times and then became free again.

Precisely what the picture shows is a protest that many of the members did because the arrest of Newton. They were going to the Justice Palace of Alameda, there was the protest to take place.

The confrontations between Black Panthers and the police increased to the point of a shooting provoke in Oakland in 1968 and in 1969 the police of Chicago kill two of the leaders of the organization. This murder still being a mystery, anyone knows what really happened.