Sergeant John Victor Young, San Francisco Police Department, California.
By Nicholas Stix
Anthony Bottom in an undated mug shot provided by the New York State Department of Correction Services.
Prison mug shot of Herman Bell
Racist, serial cop-killers Herman Bell; Anthony Bottom, alias Jalil Abdul Muntaqim; and Albert “Nuh” Washington, of the Black Liberation Army, murdered SFPD Sergeant John Victor Young in the Ingleside District Police Station on August 29, 1971.
The Pretend Encyclopedia, aka Wikipedia, has turned, via racial alchemy, Bottom and Washington’s murder of Sgt. Young into “alleged attempted murder” (see below), and erased Bell from that murder altogether.
Bell, Bottom, and Washington murdered at least three policemen, and their supporters are presently seeking to get the first two of them (Washington died in prison of cancer in 2000) sprung from jail. The killers clearly enjoy support at TPE, as well.
ODMP Remembers...
United States California
San Francisco Police Department
Sergeant John Victor Young
Sergeant
John Victor Young
San Francisco Police Department, CaliforniaEnd of Watch: Sunday, August 29, 1971
Bio and Incident Details
Age: 51
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 8/29/1971
Weapon: Shotgun; 12 gauge
Suspect: Seven suspects arrested in 2007
Sergeant John Young was shot and killed inside the Ingleside District Police Station.
While the police station was emptied of officers who had responded to an earlier bombing at another location, two men entered the police station and stuck a 12-gauge shotgun through an opening in the bullet proof glass that separated the waiting area from the rest of the police station. The suspects fired between five and ten shotgun blasts, killing Sergeant Young and wounding a civilian employee of the department. Both gunmen then fled the station house and into a waiting getaway car. Both suspects were later determined to be members of the Black Liberation Army.
Seven suspects were eventually apprehended and charged with Sergeant Young's murder. The charges were dropped in 1975 when evidence surfaced that confessions obtained might have been the result of torture. Two of the suspects were charged with the murders of Patrolman Waverly Jones and Patrolman Joseph A. Piagentiai of the New York City Police Department on May 21, 1971. Both were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
In 1999 Sergeant Young's case was reopened when new forensic evidence surfaced. On January 23, 2007, the original seven suspects were again arrested and charged with murder. On July 5, 2009, charges against four of the suspects were dropped. The two suspects who murdered the two New York police officers were convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter. They were sentenced to the time they served while awaiting trial and were returned to New York. Charges against the last suspect were dropped on August 18, 2011.
Sergeant Young was survived by his wife.
The Black Liberation Army was a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.
Anthony Bottom
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Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (born on October 18, 1951, as Anthony Bottom) is a former member of both the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA). On May 21, 1971, he was arrested in California along with Albert “Nuh” Washington and Herman Bell and convicted of the killings of two New York City police officers, Waverly Jones and Joseph A. Piagentini. In 1974, Muntaqim was convicted on two counts of murder in the first degree for these killings, and received a prison term of twenty-five years to life. He is currently incarcerated at Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York.
Contents
• 1 Personal life
• 2 Arrests/Convictions
• 3 Parole
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
Personal life
Muntaqim was born in Oakland, California and grew up in San Francisco. Drawn to the civil rights activism during the 1960s, Muntaqim joined and began organizing for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during his teenage years. In high school he played an active role in the Black Student Union and was often recruited to play the voice of and engage in “speak outs” on behalf of the organization. He was also involved in street protests against police brutality. At the age of eighteen, Muntaqim joined the Black Panther Party after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. King's assassination only solidified Muntaqim's beliefs that armed strategies of resistance were necessary to combat racism and the oppression of Black individuals in society. While a member of the Black Panther Party, Muntaqim held beliefs which paralleled those of the underground faction, as opposed to the mainstream party, which focused on organizing, communicating with nationwide affiliates and other revolutionary groups to form positive political and social relations. In contrast, the underground party was focused on radical means of obtaining equality. Its members served as experts in military strategy and were “the essential armed wing of the above-ground political apparatus.”[1]
Arrests/Convictions
On August 28, 1971, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, and Albert “Nuh” Washington were arrested for the alleged attempted murder of a San Francisco police sergeant. New York police charged Muntaqim, Washington, and another BPP and BLA member, Herman Bell, with the May 21, 1971, killings of two New York City police officers. The shootout came after George Jackson was killed by guards during an escape attempt in San Quentin Prison in 1971, which was the possible substantiation for a motive for retaliation.
George Jackson's lawyer Stephen Bingham was accused of arming Jackson in prison with a 9mm gun. Bingham, who was white, fled and went into exile until 1984, when he was found innocent of any wrongdoing. Who brought the hand gun to George Jackson is still up for debate but many activists still suggest foul play on the Government's side.
"No Black person will ever believe that George Jackson died the way they tell us he did" -James Baldwin (writer)
Muntaqim remains active in his support of political prisoners and their civil rights and means of social justice. In 1976, he founded the National Prisoners Campaign to petition the United Nations to recognize the existence of political prisoners in the United States. He is also involved in the National Prisoners Afrikan Studies Project, an organization that educates inmates on their rights.
Muntaqim and Bell remain incarcerated in New York, while Albert Washington died of liver cancer in April 2000, in New York’s Coxsackie Correctional Facility.
In July 2009, Muntaquim pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter becoming the second person to be convicted in the alleged attempted murder case of the San Francisco police sergeant.[2]
Parole
While some believe he should be paroled, his release is widely opposed. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently publicized his opposition to parole Muntaqim. He states: “Anthony Bottom's crime is unforgivable, and its consequences will remain forever with the families of the police officers, as well as the men and women of the New York City Police Department.”[3] Councilman Charles Barron, a self-described black revolutionary, is one of Muntaqim’s active advocates.[4]
Jalil Muntaqim had a hearing with the parole board on November 17, 2009 and was again denied parole. He is incarcerated at Attica, as of 2012[5]
References
1. Jump up ^ James, Joy, ed. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation and Rebellion. 1st edn. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 2003.
2. Jump up ^ 2nd guilty plea in 1971 killing of S.F. officer (via SFGate)
3. Jump up ^ "Mayor Opposes Parole for Man In 1971 Killings of Two Officers".
4. Jump up ^ "Adding Charm to Revolution; But Some Say Charles Barron Risks Going Too Far".
5. Jump up ^ NY State Inmate locator DIN=77A4283 cut: BOTTOM
Further reading
• Jalil A. Muntaqim: We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings. Arissa Media Group, 2nd expanded edition 2010. ISBN 978-0974288468
2 comments:
Can never be alleged. Anytime a firearm is produced the intent to kill is made manifest. Even if the perpetrator does not realize it, the message is being sent, I intend to kill.
A white man named Enright on the south side of Chicago in the late 1960's was a very vocal critic of the racial divisions in American society and blamed the blacks for all the trouble as was occurring at the time.
Enright and his family move to Australia to escape the social situation in the U.S. but only several years after his leaving the man was blown to bits by a bomb planted in his car.
I have often wondered if the Black Panthers or others in league with them followed Mr. Enright literally to the opposite end of the earth to kill the man. It would not surprise me if that was so.
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