The First SWAT Team Was Made To Terrorize Black People
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
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Summary
Cops burst into the building, armed with military grenades, and fired 5,000 rounds of ammunition. The teenage Panthers whispered prayers before grabbing their own guns – and shooting back! But they weren’t the only ones these sneak attacks happened to.
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| 0:00.0 | Cups burst into the building armed with military grenades and fired 5,000 rounds of ammunition. |
| 0:14.2 | The teenage panthers whispered prayers before grabbing their own guns and shooting back, |
| 0:19.1 | but they weren't the only ones these sneak attacks happened to. |
| 0:23.4 | This is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:30.0 | On December 8, 1969, the Los Angeles Police Department violently raided the Black Panther |
| 0:41.1 | Party's Los Angeles headquarters after creating the nation's first Special Weapons and Tactics |
| 0:47.6 | team, aka SWAT. |
| 0:51.7 | SWAT teams have been attacking Black communities ever since. |
| 0:56.5 | For what happened to the Panthers? |
| 1:09.6 | The LAPB set out to serve a warrant to search the panthers' headquarters for stolen weapons, |
| 1:15.6 | but it was obtained using the FBI's false information. |
| 1:19.8 | The police knew this, but ambushed them anyway. |
| 1:22.9 | Their new experiment in policing meant gas mass, a helicopter, a tank, and military grade |
| 1:30.5 | grenades. |
| 1:32.2 | More than 200 officers swarmed in to take on just 12 panthers, many of whom were only |
| 1:39.3 | teenagers. |
| 1:40.6 | Police detonated explosives on the Panthers' roofs, and by the end of it, they had fired |
| 1:45.2 | more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. |
| 1:49.3 | But it didn't go how they planned. |
| 1:52.6 | The Panthers didn't go out without a fight. |
| 1:55.4 | They shot back. |
| 1:57.2 | Six Black Panthers were wounded, but luckily no one died. |
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