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Bobby Hutton

Bobby Hutton was a young member of the Black Panther Party. He was shot by Oakland Police after a firefight in 1969, after Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assasinated. Eldridge Cleaver was present at the killing, and reports that Bobby was unarmed and naked at the time of the killing.

He was 17 when he was killed. A park in Oakland, California has been named after him.

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