Hampton had been a target of the FBIās extralegal COINTELPRO program, a secret operation intended to discredit and neutralize organizations that the agency considered subversive (such as groups advocating for civil rights or Puerto Rican independence). The FBIās campaign against the Black Panthers culminated in December 1969, when police in Chicago killed Hampton and a fellow Panther, Mark Clark, in a raid. Hampton and Clarkās families and the raidās survivors eventually received a settlement of $1.85 million from the city of Chicago, Cook county, and the federal government.
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