Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement A documentary and discussion about the SF-8
A documentary film showing and discussion featuring Black Panther Party/Angola 3 member Robert King
In 1973, thirteen members and friends of the Black Panther Party were arrested in New Orleans in connection with the 1971 shooting death of a San Francisco police sergeant. At least three were TORTURED in jail and gave forced “confessions”
to police interrogators. Two years later a federal judge in San Francisco threw out the torture-induced “confessions.” All
charges were dropped.
But in 2004 — more than 30 years later — a grand Jury reopened the 1971 investigation. Five Black Panther Party associates, including two who had been jailed and tortured in New Orleans, were jailed again for refusing to testify. LEGACY OF TORTURE is the story of these grand jury resisters. Harold Taylor and John Bowman (who died in 2006) chillingly describe their Abu Ghraib style torture at the hands of New Orleans cops and their lives between that horror and the new “investigation.”
Co-resisters Ray Boudreaux, Richard Brown, and Hank Jones, and Harvard law professor Soffiyah Elijah talk about the Black Panther Party and the government’s ongoing effort to destroy its legacy.
Meanwhile, another sinister chapter to this story is unfolding right now! In January, 2007, eight Black activists, ages 55-72,
including four surviving grand jury resisters, were arrested on recycled charges stemming from 1971. Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim (both already locked up for decades), Taylor, Boudreaux, Brown, Jones, Richard O’Neal, and Francisco Torres are now the San Francisco 8. Find out why thousands of people in San Francisco and around the U.S. are rallying to their support when you see LEGACY OF TORTURE.
this event sponsored by Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS-Austin)
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