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our nation cannot afford the contagious search and destroy approached towards any group of any structure. For each is part and parcel off a social fabric, out of which we have been sparred as churchman of the Christian faith. We have power violence in any of its forms.

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Whether covert are over in affirming the need to preserve order and justice, we call upon the federal and civil authorities in the performance of that duty is to exercise maximum discipline and restraint to protect all the people on to be just with every person without reference

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to raise. Yeah, obviously you are. You believe that the Black Panthers are being persecuted by government and police? What information do you have that conventions you with this? First you have the incidents in Chicago where to Panther leaders

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were killed on the circumstances that many of us have reason to believe. Need further inquiry, an investigation or and some of us feel should never have taken place. Secondly, you have the recent raids in Los Angeles why you had a use of maximum firepower and several

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panthers were wounded on Then you have the statement by one of the attorneys, Charles Gary with reference to a possibility of 28 Panthers Panther leaders in the United States having met with violent death at the hands of police since January of 1968. These are some of

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the concerns which are related to this situation that has now developed.