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February 13, 1971

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THE PANTHERS AND THE POLICE: A PATTERN OF GENOCIDE?

Edward Jay Epstein

REPORTER AT LARGE about an examination of 18 cases in which Black Panthers were allegedly killed by police. The idea that the police have declared a sort …