Civil rights lawyer Flint Taylor describes Fred Hampton murder as “political assassination”

Leading civil rights lawyer Flint Taylor exposes the long history of police brutality and decades of cover-ups in the Chicago Police Department in his new book “The Torture Machine.” The book looks at the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, which Taylor describes as “not just a murder… but a political assassination straight from Washington and the FBI.”

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