Talk:Fred Hampton Jr.

Style

This article is really poorly written at the moment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.241.122 (talk) 20:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Bias

This article is very heavily biased toward Fred Hampton, Jr.'s point of view. Lots of little subtle bits of bias through-out as well as the fact that it's just poorly written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ClickForth (talk • contribs) 00:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Sources

There are no reliable sources here. Corvus cornix_talk 00:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup

Since it has been over a year since the complaints of sourceless information and lots of subtle bias (both of which I agreed with), I removed most of the bottom half of the article. I don't feel this affects the quality of the article in a negative way, as most of the information that was encyclopedic was already in the top part and was just expanded on with biased and unsourced additions in the part I deleted. This man may be worthy of an entry, but much of the information in the article was not. 76.84.38.215 (talk) 10:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I am reproducing below much of the material you deleted. It contains some information that was not in the top part of the article. Much of it is potentially verifiable; indeed, clues are included as to the sources. I notice you did not attempt to track them down. If you were more interested in informing people than in suppressing information, you might have tried that, or at least done as I have done and put the material here for others to work on. -- Ong saluri (talk) 19:07, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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On December 4, 1969, Fred Sr. slept beside his pregnant girlfriend, Akua Njeri. Allegedly drugged with secobarbitol before bedtime, Fred Hampton was murdered during the early morning hours in the now infamous Chicago Panther House Raid while Fred Hampton, Jr. was still in his mother's womb.

In March 1992, the government made two separate attempts to indict Fred Hampton, Jr on charges of Murder and Armed Robbery. He was found not guilty of both, much to the dismay of the prosecuting attorney who remarked, "...Fred Hampton Jr., we'll get you yet." In May of that same year, Fred was indicted again. He was accused of firebombing a Korean Merchant's store. Some hint at corruption in the trial: for example, the NPDUM's page says the jury was rigged to exclude those with positive recollections of the BPP and Fred Hampton, Sr., but included those who feared blacks and had been robbed. The judge refused to allow the name "Fred Hampton" to be used in court. When Fred Jr.'s mother takes the stand to testify as to where Fred Jr. was at the time of the alleged incident, the main focus of questioning is her political affiliation with militant and radical groups like the BPP and the NPDUM.

On May 19, 1993, Fred Hampton, Jr. was sentenced to eighteen years in prison on a count of aggravated arson.

Fred Hampton, Jr inherited his father's talent for politics as well as his his effectiveness in organizing. It has been suggested by the media and several government officials that race riots in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1996, were prompted by the NPDUM.

Suggestions for new info for page update

I’d like to help however possible. FTIIIOhfive (talk) 00:11, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Confusing phrasing

At several points in the article there are vague or confusing/contradictory references that are not explained until later paragraphs, if at all. For example, in the opening paragraph, his father is described as having been killed "December 4th," with no year nor reference to Fred's date of birth weeks later until later in the article. Fred's mother being included in that sentence also makes it unclear whether she, too, was killed during that raid. The next major issue concerns how many crimes he was charged with and how many him and his supporters claim he was framed for. The article says "both," but here in the talk page is an earlier piece of the article asserting that he's been charged three times (murder, robbery, arson) and convicted once (arson). Presumably the murder and robbery were part of the same trial and "both" is meant to refer to two trials rather than two charges, but it could also refer to "both" of the Korean stores he was charged with bombing. The article as written seems like it has two similar articles spliced together haphazardly. 68.60.202.174 (talk) 16:21, 11 November 2022 (UTC)