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Dohrn's connection to Black Panther police murderer Anthony
Bottom
(AKA Jalil Muntaqim)
- Anthony Bottom's odd confession to the February
16, 1970 murder in San
Francisco Park Station bombing to which Bernardine
Dohrn - along with Bill Ayers - have always been the
prime suspects .)
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*May 21, 1971 - New York City - murder of two police officers.
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**Aug. 28, 1971 - San Francisco attempted murder of a police officer.
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***Aug. 29, 1971 - San Francisco - murder of police officer (Ingleside Station)
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Connection to October 20,
1981 Brinks robbery and the murder of two police officers.
Aug. 29, 1971 - San Francisco - murder of police officer (Ingleside Station)
***August 29, 1971 - Sergeant Young was shot to death during a military-style attack at Ingleside Station by members of the Black Liberation Army, a violence-based group formed with the intent to kill police officers throughout the United States.
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San Francisco
Police Sergeant John V. Young
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Nine armed men attacked the station late that evening. Young was hit from close range by shotgun blasts fired through the public counter window of the station’s business office. A female clerk was hit in the arm and survived.
Following the shootings, the suspects tried to ignite a bomb and blow up the station but failed, prosecutors said.
Defendants Herman Bell, 61; Anthony Bottom (now Jalil
Muntaqim), 57; Francisco Torres, 60; Richard Brown, 68; Ray Boudreaux, 66; Henry Jones, 73; and Harold Taylor, 60, all face charges of murder. Bell, Muntaqim and Torres are also charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Prosecutors say Bell fired the shotgun that killed Young and injured the clerk. The conspiracy charges relate to a series of crimes between 1968 and 1973, including the attempted murder of four police officers, the bombing of a police officer’s funeral, the murder of two New York City police officers, the attempted bombing of the Mission police station and three armed bank robberies. |
A key individual involved in the murder of Sgt. Young (August 29, 1971) was
Marilyn Buck who cased the Ingleside police station before the BLA attacked it.
She had been arrested and sentenced to10 years in prison, but in 1977 she was granted furlough and never returned. The FBI had offered a $1 million reward for information directly leading to
Marilyn Buck's apprehension.
Ten years later police traced the license plate on one of the getaway vehicles to an apartment in New Jersey belonging to
Marilyn Buck in the 1981 Brinks robbery. Bloody clothing found in the apartment belonged to Buck, who had accidentally shot herself in the leg when she tried to draw her weapon during the shootout with the police.
Six years later (in 1985) Marilyn Buck
was finally arrested and sentenced to 50 - 80 years in a federal prison (unless
Eric Holder pardons her also.)
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Zayd Shakur
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One of Marilyn Buck's
terrorist convictions involved the 1979 escape from prison in New Jersey of Assata
Shakur, convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. Shakur fled to Cuba and received political asylum from the Castro government and continues to live in Cuba. The attack on Foerster also took the life in a gun battle of Shakur's terrorist associate, Zayd Shakur,
for whom Bernardine Dohrn named her first child born in 1977. As of 2009 Bernardine's son goes under the name of
"Zayd Dohrn" and is a playwright.
Since May 2, 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has classified
Assata Shakur as a "domestic terrorist" and offered a $1 million reward for assistance in her capture. Shakur is the step-aunt of the deceased hip hop artist Tupac Shakur (the sister of his stepfather, Mutulu
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Arrests for Aug. 29, 1971 - San Francisco - murder of police officer (Ingleside Station)
Former members of the Black Liberation Army have been charged with the Aug. 29, 1971 murder of Sergeant Young and with conspiracy to murder police officers:
Ray Michael Boudreaux of Altadena, California
Richard Brown of San Francisco, California
Herman Bell, incarcerated in New York
Anthony Bottom, incarcerated in New York
Henry Watson Jones of Altadena, California
Francisco Torres of Queens, New York
Harold Taylor of Panama City, Florida
Richard O’Neal of San Francisco
Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth - whereabouts are currently unknown, California state arrest warrants, a federal unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, and an INTERPOL Red Notice remain in effect for him.
Over the next month after their arrests, Anthony Bottom, while in police custody, made an extraordinary series of statements, according to investigators familiar with his case. He reportedly told SFPD homicide inspectors Frank McCoy and Eddy Erdelatz that he had personally planted the bomb that killed McDonnell at Park Station, and said he had helped plan the Ingleside attack, which took place while he was in jail. He also claimed involvement in the bombing of St. Brendan's Church in the Forest Hill district during a police funeral in October 1970, and in a plot to plant sticks of dynamite on the roof of the Mission District police station.
*When he made his far-ranging confession, Anthony Bottom
was already destined for prison. A revolver found with him at the time of his arrest had been traced to New York City Police Officer Waverly
Jones, who was gunned down with his partner, Joseph
Piagentini, by BLA members in a Manhattan housing project on Friday, May 21, 1971. Today, Bottom is serving a life sentence for his conviction in their murders at Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
**On Aug. 28, 1971, Anthony Bottom and Albert Washington, cadres of the violent Black Panthers splinter group known as the Black Liberation Army
(BLA), pulled up in a car alongside the patrol cruiser of San Francisco Police Sergeant George Kowalski at an intersection in the Mission and leveled a submachine gun at him. The BLA was suspected or convicted of multiple attacks on police officers in the 1970s, including the 1971 shotgun killing of Sergeant John Young at Ingleside Police Station. On this occasion, however, they were unsuccessful. The gun, loaded with the wrong type of ammunition, had jammed. Bottom and Washington were arrested and charged with attempted
murder.
Hearings for Aug. 29, 1971 - San Francisco - murder of police officer (Ingleside Station)
July 6, 2009 - San Francisco - Jalil Muntaqim (AKA
Anthony Bottom) plead no contest to conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter for the Aug. 29, 1971 murder of San Francisco police office at the Ingleside Station.
Bernardine Dohrn, in a gesture of solidarity among aging radicals, traveled to San Francisco from Chicago to stand with the defendants' ("The San Francisco Eight") supporters in the courtroom.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-09-16/news/time-bomb/3
Ray Michael Boudreaux of Altadena, California - walked out of the building
a free man.
Richard Brown of San Francisco, California - walked out of the building
a free man.
Herman Bell, incarcerated in New York - plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Anthony Bottom, incarcerated in New York -
plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Henry Watson Jones of Altadena, California (unknown results)
Francisco Torres of Queens, New York - still facing charges
Harold Taylor of Panama City, Florida - walked out of the building a
free man.
(Richard O’Neal of San Francisco - Did not attend: charges
were earlier dropped.)
(Another man involved in the case, John Bonner, died before the other eight were arrested in 2007.)
Torres preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct 9, 2009 - Watch to see if
Bernardine Dohrn show up for that hearing too.
Anthony Bottom (AKA Jalil Muntaqim) is asking that people write letters supporting his 2009 parole. A hearing could occur as early as Oct. 22 and as late as the end of December. Watch to see if
Bernardine Dohrn show up for that hearing as well.
Jalil Muntaqim (AKA Anthony Bottom) "Free Jaili" web site:
http://www.freejalil.com
http://www.freethesf8.org/court2007-2009.html
Sub Note - RE: Assata Shakur and Joanne Chesimard
Democratic Senator Robert
Menendez, who was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Cuba, gave a major speech on March 2 on the Senate floor warning against recognizing and working with the Castro regime. "Some suggest that there be cooperation with Cuba on narcotics trafficking," he said. "Well, let them hand over the 200 fugitives from the United States that the FBI knows are in Cuba, including
Assata Shakur and Joanne Chesimard, the convicted killer of New Jersey State Trooper Werner
Foerster. Let her come back to the United States and face justice. There are 200 of them."
What, if anything, will Holder and Obama ever have to say about this? Did the media even bother to ask them during National Police Week?
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