Explain this in detail in the form of a story:
People later found out the FBI was doing illegal things to try and stop the Black Panther Party. Five thousand people attended his funeral and civil rights activists Roy Wilkins and Ramsey Clark accused the police of killing him without justification. A coroner’s jury ruled his death a justifiable homicide, but a federal grand jury criticized the actions of the police. His family filed a civil suit and eventually received a settlement of $1.85 million.
1. Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an American activist and leader in the Black Panther Party.
2. The FBI was worried about Hampton and recruited someone to spy on him.
3. On December 4, 1969, the FBI and Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot him, killing him.
4. Five thousand people
attended his funeral and a coroner’s jury ruled his death a justifiable homicide.
5. His family filed a civil
suit and eventually received a settlement of $1.85 million.
6. Fred Hampton’s legacy lives on in the fight for civil rights.
7. There are monuments, streets and public pools named after him, and he was remembered in films and books.