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aware that, uh, in the consideration of the Panther activities activities. There's also a problem off disassociating this country's prejudices from the actual criminal investigative problems of it. There's just too much willingness in this country to say these Air Black Panthers talking about killing people, they gotta

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be criminals. And this satisfies a great deal of what is called Middle America. It's a most potent political thing to say. They're black, uh, on so you can get all kinds of people to agree that anybody who's after them has got to be a great guy.

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You know, he's doing the right thing. Well, I don't wanna be in that kind of thing. You see, I don't want a part of that, and I wanna look at specific offenses. If somebody commits a federal offenses within my jurisdiction, he could be black or white,

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and I'll go after him. But I am concerned about the the aspect of a Panther investigation that is not simply an objective thing but has thes overtones of racism and politics.