![]() ![]() It was released by Warner Bros., which like CNN is a unit of WarnerMedia. (the Black messiah), and LaKeith Stanfield, who plays FBI informant William O’Neal (Judas), are both up for Best Supporting Actor. “Judas and the Black Messiah” is up for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. … I’m kind of pessimistic about it, but I’m glad he’s convicted, and then we’ll see what happens with the other pigs,” she said, using the Panther pejorative for the three police officers charged along with Chauvin. Njeri elaborated, saying she remains wary Chauvin might get a light sentence or be remanded to “one of those luxurious federal prisons.” described his reaction, explaining he has one fist up in celebration but, mimicking a boxer, his other fist remains in front of his face because “we’ve got to have our guards up for that sucker punch.” and his mother are pleased with Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the Floyd case, they said, they know better than to be too optimistic. A decade later, the city of Chicago, Cook County and the federal government agreed to a $1.85 million settlement with the raid’s survivors and Clark’s and Hampton’s families. A prosecutor and 13 others were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and were acquitted in 1972. Initially, seven Panthers were charged with attempted murder and other counts the charges were later dropped. A grand jury found Hampton was shot in the head twice and that police had found two guns next to him. The Black Panthers say the men were targeted and murdered by Chicago police serving a warrant for illegal weapons. that no one was brought to justice in the raid that killed the 21-year-old Hampton Sr., head of the Panthers’ Illinois chapter, and his defense captain, Mark Clark. It’s lost on neither Njeri nor Hampton Jr. visits George Floyd Square in Minneapolis earlier this month. ![]() Njeri’s framed-and-enlarged mugshot, taken following the December 4, 1969, raid depicted in the movie, served as a backdrop.įred Hampton Jr. Hours after a jury announced three guilty verdicts in the trial of an ex-Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, the pair spoke to CNN via videoconference. have continued with the Black Panther Party Cubs. – who shares his father’s honorific, Chairman Fred – have a deep appreciation for the movie, as well as the attention it has drawn to Hampton Sr.’s legacy and the work Njeri and Hampton Jr. “So many emotions that come and … seeing this scene triggers other things that I may have forgot over the years.” “I’ll get up and pretend I have to go to the bathroom because it impacts me so, and I cannot sit all the way through it,” she said. She’s seen the Oscar-nominated movie at least 10 times, she told CNN, but she has yet to sit through that scene. She remains a revolutionary, as well as the mother of Hampton’s namesake. The real Deborah Johnson hasn’t watched the scene in “Judas and the Black Messiah” where a cop puts a gun to her pregnant belly after a predawn raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. ![]()
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