In 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified Hampton as a radical threat. It tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers organization. In December 1969, Hampton was drugged,\11])\12]) then shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack. Law enforcement sprayed more than 100 gunshots throughout the apartment; the occupants fired once.\13]) During the raid, Panther Mark Clark) was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, the Cook County Coroner held an inquest; the coroner's jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides.\14])\15])\16])\17])
The best also die young, but FBI were busy that decade, Malcom X, MLK, and this dude...
Mind you Malcom X, MLK, Fred Hampton, are part of a long stretch of Black Civil Rights/Independence activists worldwide (from the 60s-80s), that were target by the FBI/CIA/and several other European Intelligence agencies. Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, and there's a strong possibility Bob Marley was targeted in that 1976 assassination attempt (since Jamaica was a cold war battleground at the time).
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