00:00:01.240 - 00:00:17.700

the head of the Black Panthers, Mr Huey Newton, said that this is a punitive thing again done by the white race to the black race. Do you feel that that's true that the conspiracy charges are punitive? Well, at least debated Lee are arguably so, if only

00:00:17.700 - 00:00:32.610

in view of my original information that they were going to file misdemeanors when I first called and inquired. And then, um, hours later, or the next day, which is today, has decided to aggravate the charge or increase the charge for the same act. Uh, it might

00:00:32.620 - 00:00:47.570

might appear in a way that they could be making a mountain out of a mole hill. And I say this without attempt to minimize of any thing which the men may have done. Uh, it may be argued that they took extreme, uh, measures to protest Ayla

00:00:47.570 - 00:00:59.870

pending law. But here again, two wrongs not making a right. It might appear that the other side is now taking extreme measures to punish measure, which was essentially, I think, um, essentially was a civil rights protest