wounded in this four and a half hour shoot-out at panther headquarters. hoover declared. a vietnam war hero had become hoover's worst nightmare. >> he was clearly the target of this area. the person who had to be put behind bars for the black panther party to be stopped. and consequently they said, well, if you didn't do that who cares. we think he belongs in jail anyway. >> reporter: internal fbi reports called for him to be neutralized as a panther leader. >> it might get someone fired, screw up their marriage if they are married, play havoc with, you know, the landlord or whatever, or having someone framed and put in jail or assassinated. >> reporter: and when pratt and other members were arrested this letter shows he had nothing to do with it. [ music ] >> still to come on "second look" chris harris continues his look at the pratt case and the charges there a miscarriage of justice. plus we will take you to his joyous bay area homecoming after his release in 1997. >> follow sick sick "second look" on facebook and twitter. [ ding! ] [ boy ] lookin' goo

jones the new black panther party barack obama i'm not going to miss him at all all right and we just played a short sound bite about when he criticize our team he's actually going a few times you're also the victim of a glenn beck criticism i want to play that for our viewers really quick and i'll get your response. was one of the creepiest moments on t.v. you had one point close a zizou starts to pray and when i want to do commercial breaks the floor staff said oh my gosh that was creepy this is before we knew anything really about barack obama before we really started digging into his past watch what he said. but you have to understand it your ancestors had been in slavery and bondage for three hundred years that your ancestors had been denied the right to become policemen firemen attend schools good mortgages i mean it's not your for you i tell you if you will be like way i will tell you that i would feel i would feel so unbelievably proud that that country has made so much progress that the richest woman in america is oprah winfrey and possibly the next president is also an afric

kind of guy with a snarling dog and michael caine gets in the elevator with the black panther guy. had i known - spend your time. >>-and being published in different parts of the world exhilarating. but in retrospect i would have done something different but i don't want to go into that now. >> you have to read the book "thoughts without cigarettes". >> the second question was when you are writing fiction or the memoir, how do you decide how to protect people in your life? in other words sometimes people are offended if you include them in your book or a character is an amalgamation -- >> we touched a little bit on that. >> i don't have anyone in the book who i think and kindly of. i hope that comes for. sometimes it is a little raw but i did my best. if someone happens to be offended by a certain something, i don't know. >> that is very clear. that does come through in this book. it only hit the stand two days ago but if you get to read this book and i hope you do, it is a touching book about someone coming to terms with an upbringing was a surge in the set of circumstances. and r

eric holder was involved in the dismissal of criminal charges against new black panthers. false. obama voted present in the u.s. senate quite often. false. white house science advisor john holdren proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants in drinking water. [laughter] pants on fire. labor union president andy stern is the most frequent visitor at white house. false. america is the only country with automatic citizenship upon birth. false. o'reilly never called george tiller a baby killer, only reporting what others called him. false. only fox news picked up that anita dunn said mao was one of her favorite philosophers. false. nobody at fox news ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. that's pants on fire. well, i'll tell you what, they got a lot of [bleeped] correcting to do. [cheering and applause] welcome back to my guest tonight, an actress, her new film is called "bad teacher." >> hey, welcome back. a bunch of us are going out tonight to see period five play. do you want to come? >> period five? >> yeah, the teacher band. >> i rather get shot

[applause] [list of names] >> i am from the san francisco gray panthers. i am very concerned about the threats. i am also concerned about the loss of skilled nursing, but i am also concerned about loss of patient care. i had to have open heart surgery, and i was really scared. it turns out i got great care, but part of this was because there were enough nurses to take care of me unstable after coming out of the operating room. goothe other thing that was important is that there were enough nurses to ask what was held in a period to ask. it was adequate staff. it was a huge plus to patient care. you could tell the nurses had power. when they gave medicines, they had us-on, and it said, do not disturb me, i oam concentrating on something important, and it is important because people died in the united states. a hospital i was out was unionize. they do not have a contract. goothis is a question of a patient's quality corridor -- of the patient's quality very good >> i am a registered nurse. i also live-in in the mission. i feel frightened by the master plan.

. >> history like the old black panther's newspapers and sweeping collection written by africa-americans. but the library is not alone and a potentially doomed fate. 14 of the 18 libraries may be closed under the proposal to balance oakland's budget. >> it is not about but how bad it is. >> it is not a scare tactic but a reality. unless they pass a partial tax. >> i am hopeful we will save the libraries. but to save the libraries you have to save all of the services. >> oakland main library would stay open. but the three story building would be run with fewer than five employees and now has 46. that means the children's reading room, a magnet for kids would be shut down. 40 percent of the staff would be laid off including the children's libarian amy martin. >> we are terrified all of the network will go away and everything for the community will be gone. >> a frightening prospect for the libarians. >> where will they go to really learn about africa-american history and their legacy especially if they are from oakland? this is abc sevennews. >> looks like you might want to head indoors an

i grew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them.o on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that you need to be a warrior where you need to be. i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i

>> i started as a lawyer working on the case but geronimo pratt, a black panther case. that ended up after 27 years to be proven. and we have learned that law enforcement' officers had good evidence or statutory evidence, let people commit perjury, said in the room and -- sat in the room to destroy evidence to convict someone who was innocent. and that is how i started my career as a lawyer. when i started that case, i began thinking this was a big conspiracy to frame this man. what i learned is -- and i discussed this with geronimo -- we are experiencing men and women who thought the end justified the means. they thought they had a bad man and it was ok to do anything necessary to convict him. as i look back on my career, present and future, i think we see that that is the concept that runs through police misconduct. i am sure there are officers who were just bad, let's say. i think officers see what they consider bad people, and they feel like they have to do what ever it takes to convict them. and i have seen it when i was a young lawyer, when we had narcotics teams,

panther, john loomis, corey brae, guitano baso, and carl hanson. please come forward. >> i am kevin gabarra, from district 3. i support this project, because it will bring jobs and housing in revenue to the city of san francisco. the developer has made an extensive effort for 290 community outreach meetings, to watch out for the residents of san francisco. thank you. >> i am j.j. panzer from the property management association and i support this project. having been born and raised in san francisco and having experiences in park merced, i think this will be an important part of turning this into a modern part of the future of san francisco. without this development, there is a danger that this place will need extensive of grades to maintain the old standard for the needs of san francisco in the 21st century. for one i have seen of the development plans, this meets the needs of the of the housing accommodations, and the public space for housing more people in san francisco to accommodate more people in the future. >> readin [reading names] i will ke

let's go milo buddy this is the himalayan panther both you want to say hello that you want to have fun and once . he's only ten months old growing like a weed. now but when he gets bigger. he's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's a. great i'm having fun and biting everything in his reach. every careful. that's a good mind. thing bellew's a handful whately latest friends makes to. visit them on being baby. in the space of recent the zoo now has around three hundred animals and they've set up a new baby pig caps and walk away you get along like this. my genes the most used to becoming a delicious treat and just a few months ago i welcomed one of the world's rarest animals so this little is adam a baby i want tiger and son of to confiscate a tiger so he really is a little nervous. and you can already see. it's not going to be too long. before. he's going to see the world and his cat and a bit of a killer. is going to be temple with me. most of the animals here have been rescued from poachers or from circuses and some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is very gory h

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this is leader of the former leader of the black panther party during a 1998 court hearing. the 63-year-old passed away yesterday at his home in africa. pratt is best known for spending 27 years in murder before a judge overturned his conviction. pratt said the government knew of his conviction. >>> vice-president joe biden is in the vatican in rome. he met with pope benedict. it was an unannounced meeting. the vice-president is a practicing catholic who also supports abortion rights. now the pope has long insisted that catholic politicians follow the church's teaching on quote, nonnegotiable issues like abortion, which the vatican strongly opposes. >>> concerns are growing around the world about a strain of e. coli in europe that chinese researchers are calling a super toxic strain. three people who recently traveled to germany are infected with it. in europe 18 people have died so far. more than 2,000 are infected. some governments are limiting imports on vegetables from spain, germany and the netherlands but they have not been able to pinpoint the exact source of it. >>>

english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera could all just be hype to bring down the panthers. parents are probably she's working for the problems of today out for the record our t. isn't state run our she does receive funding from the government but we are editorially independent but that really doesn't stop people from calling a state run at any chance that they seem to get and as a result they dismissed us as we heard on n.p.r. not too long ago here was what the host of on the media said he said though they have the look and feel of maybe d d c or stand a duck and quacks like a duck doesn't make it a duck. well since they brought up the d.c. let's talk a little bit about the d.c. let's look at how some of these other networks get their funding the b.b.c. broadcast to the world obviously on radio t.v. online providing news and information in thirty two languages how is it funded by a government grant that the world by service and what is their charter representing the u.k. it's nation's regions and communities bringing new cases the world and the world to the u.k. now if you

you hat the weather underground, the black panther party, the watergate chaos that was going on. the fbi black-bag jobs of palestinian offices across the country. you had the pow hostages coming home from vietnam. it was a troubling time in america, and you can look back and sigh, why wasn't this solved then? the only fbi agent said, fred, we had so many lead that -- on so many different cases and we had zero able to really do a lot of any of them and do it well, and they certainly were not prepared to handle this kind of case. but i think for anybody that's a student of terrorism, the current events resonate today, what's going on in middle east, with the topic of the book in 1973, because there hasn't been lot of changes since that time period, and certainly israel is doing the best they can to protect themselves during this time period. >> can you tell us about his brown and -- background and why he was, a., interesting, and, b., worth killing from the point of view of certain bad people? who was this man? >> the colonel as a child hoff the holocaust. his family had been kille

the counterintelligence program designed to destroy the american indian movement which like black panther party which champion rights for black people they were chanting the rights of indigenous people native people and of course on a humanitarian basis leonard peltier should be released immediately he's also the victim of a frame up and it's only because of the f.b.i.'s war against leonard peltier that the war against really the progressive in the community that he remains in prison now the f.b.i. does not see it this way they see it as a case closed however there is a lot of compelling evidence that shows that whether you agree with the f.b.i. or talk to our supporters there's a lot of evidence that he didn't have a fair trial witnesses that recanted witnesses testimony that the f.b.i. later admitted they knew were false stalls and that perjury when they as x. rated him from canada to the united states so given all of this why haven't they paroled him when he was up for parole in two thousand one for example this is a problem in the united states if an f.b.i. agent or a police law enfor

pratt believed the governor went after him because of his role in the black panthers.d to the nation of tansania where he died this week. >>> and chief meteorologis >>> we first told you about the puma project back in 2009. tonight new images released only to ktvu show mountain lions in the santa cruz mountains. maureen naylor shows us what researchers hope to learn here. >> reporter: this video taken last week shows an 82-pound female mountain lion approaching a dead deer in an open state reserve. >> you see how delicately she's walking. >> reporter: the valley day conservation released the latest equipment they're using to monitor the big cats in the area. >> we didn't expect so much crossing of certain roadways. some are successful, others aren't. and we are seeing more mortalities. >> reporter: this video was also taken last week. >> this cat is just -- he sees the flash and sort of reacting to it. then walks away. >> reporter: and in this clip from last fall, you see a young male mountain lion running to his sibling on the left while their mother wearing a researc

pratt believed the governor went after him because of his role in the black panthers.e moved to the nation of tansania where he died this week. >>> and chief meteorologist bill martin tracking rain off the california coast. when it's going to get here and how it's going to impact your weekend? our planes start flying when it's dark. and they don't stop flying until it's dark again. flying all day, every day. you deserve our best. that's why there's so many flight options. [ webber ] southwest airlines has seven daily nonstop flights from the bay area to chicago midway to fit your schedule. ♪ hey, we're on your schedule, not ours. there will be another one back here in a second, just watch. what did i tell you -- there's another one. [ ding ] >>> we first told you about the puma project back in 2009. tonight new images released only to ktvu show mountain lions in the santa cruz mountains. maureen naylor shows us what researchers hope to learn here. >> reporter: this video taken last week shows an 82-pound female mountain lion approaching a dead deer in an open state res

a former leader of the black panther party has just died. pratt has died at the age of 63. he died at his home. you are looking at video of him at a court hearing. he spent 27 years in prison for the murder of a schoolteacher but then a judge overturned his conviction years later. pratt always argued the government knew he was innocent. >>> a new walker friendly trail leading to the top of action listentist ridge will be open. a dedication ceremony will be held tomorrow morning. the heritage land trust put together and contributed >>> good morning, right now traffic is moving along nicely an 24 westbound through lafayette all the we to orinda and oakland. we'll have another traffic update and a look at the weekend forecast straight ahead. >>> take a look at this video. a sink hole nearly swallowed this nearly 100-year-old home in iowa causing the house to slide off its foundation. the area has had a lot of rain lately. luckily no one was inside that home. >>> the stormy winter weather could cause problems throughout summer. people in south dakota are preparing. homeowners i