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The FBI’s share of $1.75 million marked one of the few times in its history it was forced to admit culpability in a case of false imprisonment. Two years after his release, Pratt won a $4.5 million settlement of his civil rights case against the FBI and LAPD. Police Department because of his activity in the Black Panther Party.

Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, his family and supporters always maintained he was targeted and framed by the FBI and the L.A. He was released in 1997 after a Reagan appointee, a judge, vacated his conviction. He spent 27 years in prison, eight of those in solitary confinement. In 1972, Pratt was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Caroline Olsen. ĪMY GOODMAN: The former Black Panther leader Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt died Thursday at the age of 63 in a village in the East African country of Tanzania. It didn’t matter what the truth was, because he was the bad guy, and the truth had to take second place, even in the courtroom.” Pratt ultimately won a $4.5 million civil rights settlement against the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department. “When we started litigating this, rather than turning it over, for the first time anyone could remember FBI wiretaps disappeared. “The FBI followed Geronimo every second, almost, of his life, and they knew he was in Oakland at the time of the homicide,” says Hanlon. We also speak with his friend and former attorney, Stuart Hanlon, and with Ed Boyer, the Los Angeles Times reporter who helped expose his innocence.

We play an excerpt of a Democracy Now! interview with Pratt and one of his attorneys, Johnnie Cochran, Jr., in 2000. The trial to win his freedom revealed that the Los Angeles Black Panther leader was a target of the FBI’s counterintelligence program, or COINTELPRO.

He was released in 1997 after a judge vacated his conviction. In 1972, Pratt was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Caroline Olsen for which he spent 27 years in prison, eight of those in solitary confinement.

We look at the life of former Black Panther, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, who died in Tanzania on Thursday.

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