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  • Agent Mitchell, FBI.

  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 things.

  • Judas and the Black Messiah got factually right at one point.

  • For me, he was like a role model.

  • Black Panthers are the single greatest threat to our national security.

  • Alex Rackley.

  • No, you did.

  • For this list.

  • We're looking at plot points from this biopic that remained faithful to the lives of Fred Hampton, William O'Neal and everyone in between.

  • In case you haven't seen this powerful film yet.

  • Keep in mind, there will be spoilers.

  • What did you think of Judas in the Black Messiah?

  • Let us know in the comments, E number 10.

  • William O'Neal was a car thief.

  • FBI.

  • That's right.

  • When we're introduced to O Neill, he poses as an FBI agent who uses his fake badge to steal a car booth.

  • Guys at the pool hall catch on to O Neill's ruse leading to his arrest.

  • Although a few liberties are taken, it's not too far from the truth.

  • According to O Neill, he stole a car with a buddy One night they drove it to Michigan.

  • And after shooting some pool, the two had an accident and took a bus back to Chicago.

  • My recruitment by the FBI was very efficient.

  • Very simple.

  • Really.

  • Um, I'd stolen car.

  • And when Joy riding over state limit while O Neill wasn't arrested on the spot, he was contacted by FBI agent Roy Martin Mitchell a few months later about the stolen vehicle.

  • Tell me why the batch.

  • Why not just use a knife or a gun like a normal car thief?

  • Mitchell eventually told O Neill that the charges against him would be dropped if he infiltrated the Black Panther Party.

  • Number nine.

  • Free Breakfast for Children, even brothers and sisters.

  • I wanted to help you out to a new free breakfast program over on the South Side next week.

  • Although the FBI painted Fred Hampton is a criminal, his goal was to make the world a better place.

  • One of the many ways he did this was through the Free Breakfast for Children program, as seen in the movie launched by the Black Panther Party.

  • The program fed thousands of hungry Children on a daily basis the Illinois Black Panther Party as a man, they to feed every hungry kid in Chicago in addition to organizing five breakfast programs in Chicago's Westside, Hampton aspired to help provide free medical services.

  • Nevertheless, the FBI claimed that the breakfast program served as a way to brainwash Children, falsely calling it quote, nefarious activity.

  • Come on, sit down yourself.

  • Authorities would raid the program even while kids were eating.

  • Not long after Hampton's death, Black Panther co founder Huey P.

  • Newton would emphasize the importance of the breakfast program.

  • You don't see this kids in here.

  • Uh, of course.

  • You know when you get to a free breakfast program for something like this, What a coward.

  • Number eight.

  • Jake Winter's death.

  • We educate, we nurture, we feed and we lobby.

  • Perhaps we're here for more than just walk.

  • Put these bodies.

  • One of the Black Panther members prominently depicted in the film is Spurgeon Jake Winters.

  • In an especially tense sequence, an armed Jake finds himself in a shootout with the cops.

  • At least two officers were shot dead before Jake is gunned down.

  • Winters did indeed die during a police shootout on November 13th, 1969 less than a month before Hampton met his tragic end.

  • Officers John Jay Gilhooley and Frank G.

  • Rappaport reportedly died during the gunfight as well.

  • Whereas Winters acts alone in the film, reports suggest that fellow Panther Lawrence Lance Bell was also present.

  • Although he was only wounded in his memory.

  • The Panthers named a free medical clinic after Winters number 70 Neill worked closely with Roy Mitchell, especially Mitchell, FBI.

  • While Mitchell reportedly had nine Black Panther informants prior to the December 1969 raid, O'Neill easily had the biggest impact.

  • Actors like Keith Stanfield and Jesse Plemons do unauthentic job capturing their dynamic, or you can Go home as the film depicts.

  • Mitchell wasn't just O'Neill's main, contacted the FBI.

  • O'Neill visited Mitchell's house, met his young child and even had dinner with him.

  • Developing a relaxed rapport, O'Neill went as far as to describe Mitchell as quote a role model at one point.

  • For me, he was like a role model, according to U.

  • S District Judge Charles Kocoras quote.

  • He became like a father to O Neill, and he trusted Roy at a time when not many people trusted anybody.

  • The two collaborated on the floor plan for Hampton's apartment, earning O'Neill a $300 bonus.

  • Hey, Roy, boy, how are you.

  • Number six.

  • Hampton was arrested over ice cream.

  • Hey was accused of taking 70 something dollars worth of ice cream.

  • According to O Neill, the FBI attempted to find evidence of Hampton doing drugs, but they never could because he was clean.

  • Hampton would face jail time, however, over $71 worth of ice cream bars.

  • In late May, Fred Hampton was sent to prison.

  • He had been convicted on a charge of stealing $71 worth of ice cream bars he was accused of stealing from a good humor ice cream van in Maywood.

  • Hampton testified that he wasn't at the scene of the crime, telling reporters out of court quote, I may be a pretty big mother, but I can't eat No.

  • 710 ice cream bars.

  • Nevertheless, he was convicted and sentenced to 2 to 5 years.

  • Ah, punishment.

  • Hampton found excessive and unfair.

  • Hampton didn't serve the full time as he was eventually released on an appeal bond show.

  • Some discipline.

  • The rush to Get me a lawyer.

  • Eight days before Hampton's death, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the conviction.

  • Number five J.

  • Edgar Hoover's vendetta.

  • Martin Sheen portrays FBI director J.

  • Edgar Hoover as a ruthless figure who will stop at nothing to get Hampton off the streets.

  • I want him off the street, judging with something, anything but did his black ass off the street.

  • Sheen's chilling performance isn't exaggerated.

  • Hoover called the Black Panther Party quote the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.

  • The Black Panthers are the single greatest threat to our national security mawr than the Chinese, even more than the Russians.

  • He also issued a directive to quote Prevent the Rise of a Messiah who could unify and electrified the militant black nationalist movement.

  • The FBI labeled Hampton a quote radical threat Despite lacking evidence to back up such claims.

  • Hampton wasn't the Onley prominent African American activist.

  • Hoover monitored.

  • Keeping a close eye on Malcolm X and Mohammed Ali is well through Cointelpro, a quote dirty tricks program.

  • Hoover targeted the Nation of Islam and Martin Luther King Jr Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with the Panthers.

  • Number four Attack on Panther office During Hamptons incarceration for the ice cream robbery, the police raided a Black Panther office.

  • This snowballed into a shootout, although we're not sure if o Neill was present, as the film suggests, while Fred Hampton was imprisoned, Ah, police raid on the Panther office turned into a shootout.

  • In any case, five officers and three Panthers were injured, but nobody died.

  • In addition to making arrests, the authorities purposely left the office in a fiery state of disarray to send a message at the encouragement of Black Panther co founder Bobby Seale.

  • The office was reopened shortly after, and the party began to rebuild.

  • The community banded together to fix the building up, and soon enough the office was back in business.

  • Open it up.

  • Take all that boarding down paint that place and the Black Panther Party members start working for a couple of days.

  • The next thing you know, the community start bringing would paint and everything and open the Black Panther Party office right back up.

  • Number three.

  • George W.

  • Sam's Jr was behind Alex Rack Lee's death.

  • George Sampson, Security Cabinet.

  • But anyway, um, in chapter.

  • According to the film, Sam's and Rackley also infiltrated the Black Panther Party.

  • Although Sam's and Rackley were both accused of secretly working with the authorities, this remains unconfirmed.

  • Either way, Judas and the Black Messiah was right about Rackley is grim fate.

  • Sam's had Rackley kidnapped and tortured for two days at the New Haven Panther office.

  • At Sam's request, fellow Panthers Warren Kimbrough and Lonnie McLucas shot Rackley dead.

  • Alex Rackley.

  • No, he did well.

  • He claims to other guys with the triggerman.

  • But what's he gonna say?

  • During the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials?

  • Sam's testified that he acted on Bobby Seale's orders.

  • No additional evidence of seals.

  • Involvement was found, but he was arrested and tried with Ericka Huggins.

  • Ultimately, Seal and Huggins were acquitted, while Sam's and Kimbrough were convicted.

  • McLucas was also acquitted.

  • Saved a conspiracy charge.

  • Number 20 Neill was asked to drug Hampton.

  • Put that in his drink.

  • In addition to drawing the floor plan for Hampton's apartment, O Neill is instructed to give him barbiturates prior to the film's climactic raid.

  • Check this out, man.

  • I got this article I want you to read, right?

  • Yeah, right.

  • The article in this paper.

  • Very important.

  • I need you to let the chairman read it tomorrow night.

  • During the 1989 interview, shortly before taking his own life, O Neill was asked if Hampton had been drugged.

  • O'Neill denied this, saying quote.

  • Fred was the type of person that you didn't have to drug anyway.

  • Fred was always tired.

  • However, barbiturates were found in Hampton's blood.

  • O Neill was at Hampton's apartment for a late dinner and left around 1:30 a.m. My mistake.

  • Shit, man, it's all good.

  • That's my mistake.

  • No, I guess I had the wrong guy.

  • Sorry, Beth Hampton was in the middle of talking to his mother on the phone when he suddenly fell asleep not long after the raid commenced.

  • Before we unveil our top pick, here are some honorable mentions.

  • Deborah Johnson's pregnancy.

  • She was more than eight months pregnant when tragedy struck, Hampton negotiated pacts.

  • He sought to peacefully unite Chicago's gangs, empty jamon Fred Hampton and then another Black Panther Party.

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  • Number one.

  • Fred Hampton's Death.

  • I'm coming.

  • Like the trial of the Chicago seven Judas and the Black Messiah is accurate in its depiction of Hampton's death at 4 a.m. On December 4th, 1969 a team of police officers arrived at Hamptons Monroe Street residents on December 4th.

  • At 4 45 in the morning, 14 policemen, nine white and five black raided the apartment.

  • 45 minutes later, they stormed the apartment with several panthers inside.

  • Mark Clark, who stood guard with a shotgun, was killed as the heavily armed cops riddled the apartment with bullets.

  • A sedated Hampton slept on a mattress with Debra Johnson, who was pulled out of their room by the authorities.

  • As the team entered Hampton's bedroom, Two additional shots could be heard, according to Johnson.

  • One officer said Quote, He's good and dead now.

  • Hampton died at age 21 but his legacy would live on.

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