Former Black Panther leader awarded millions over dispute with Oakland councilwoman

East Bay Times ^ | December 22, 2017 | Angela Ruggiero

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OAKLAND — A jury returned a verdict Thursday afternoon that awards former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown $3.75 million in a civil lawsuit filed against the city of Oakland and Councilwoman Desley Brooks.

Brown claimed in her lawsuit, filed in 2016, that Brooks unleashed “a tsunami of criminal … violent conduct” against her during an alleged assault on Oct. 30, 2015, and that the city has ignored Brooks’ propensity for violent outbursts.

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awards former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown $3.75 million

Love it. Fight the man, fight the system and in the end use the system to hit the jackpot funded by the hard working taxpayers of course. Crazy black Oakland councilwoman costs the city million. Dysfunctional black female Oakland fire chief causes 36 deaths in the Ghost Ship fire and will result in millions of lawsuit settlements.

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Elaine Brown was one of the worst, most vicious and criminal of the leaders of the Black Panther Party. If anyone deserves a good beat-down it's her:

Brown's temperament made her well suited for BPP leadership. Like her fellow Panthers, who habitually referred to Martin Luther King as “Martin Luther Coon,” Brown detested King and his calls for nonviolence. An intense woman with a dark sadistic streak, she led BPP toward new and ever-greater brutalities. For example, Brown presided over numerous bull whippings of disobedient Party members. In her aforementioned autobiography, she gave voice to her proclivity for violence with such statements as: “It is a sensuous thing to know that at one’s will an enemy can be struck down ...” Also during her three-year tenure as BPP Chairwoman, Brown was implicated (although never charged) in the murder of Betty Van Patter, a white bookkeeper who had been hired to straighten out the ledgers of the Oakland Community Learning Center, an East Oakland ghetto school that was funded and staffed by Panther members and affiliates. When Mrs. Van Patter discovered and pointed out some bookkeeping irregularities, she was kidnapped, raped, and bludgeoned to death. One day she simply “disappeared” -- and was not seen again until her mangled corpse washed up on the shore of San Francisco Bay five weeks later. The details of this case are laid out in David Horowitz’s autobiography, Radical Son.

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Good, good...anything to hurt cities like Oakland.

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Oh, yeah! Horowitz knows all the dirty secrets. The BPP should never have been allowed to exist. These were/are bad dudes.

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criminality at its best, black female arrogant radical, she will split the rewards with council woman, watch!

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“Brown joined the Black Panther Party in 1968, helped it to organize community breakfasts, wrote and recorded songs to promote its causes, and became its leader in 1974 after Huey Newton fled to Cuba to avoid murder charges.”

What murder charges were those? Oh yeah.

Newton had been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for repeatedly stabbing another man, Odell Lee, with a steak knife in mid-1964. He served six months in prisonand by October 27–28, 1967, he was out celebrating release from his probationary period. Just before dawn on October 28, Newton and a friend were pulled over by Oakland Police Department officer John Frey. Realizing who Newton was, Frey called for backup. After fellow officer Herbert Heanes arrived, shots were fired, and all three were wounded. Frey was shot four times and died within the hour, while Heanes was left in serious condition with three bullet wounds.