Op 16 maart 2000 werden twee politieagenten doodgeschoten in een van de oudste wijken van Atlanta. Eén officier stierf en de andere beweerde dat de schutter Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was, de leider van een plaatselijke moskee. Ooit bekend als H. Rap Brown, een charismatische leider van de Black Power-beweging en een ere-officier in de Black Panther Party, werd Al-Amin veroordeeld tot levenslang in de gevangenis. Maar was Al-Amin werkelijk schuldig? Of was het de terugverdientijd van tientallen jaren werk tegen het establishment?
On March 16, 2000, two police officers were shot in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. One officer died and the other claimed the shooter was Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the leader of a local mosque. Once known as H. Rap Brown, a charismatic leader of the Black Power Movement, and an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party, Al-Amin was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But was Al-Amin truly guilty? Or was it payback for decades of work against the establishment?
California, September 1975. Within a span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women, working separately, tried to assassinate the president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford. These are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate an American president.
The first, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, was already infamous as a prominent follower of cult leader Charles Manson.
The second, Sara Jane Moore, was a 45 year-old housewife who infiltrated San Francisco’s violent radical underground working undercover for the FBI.
The story of one strange and violent Summer, this season on RIP CURRENT.
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