NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bobby Hutton

On April 7, 1968 he was killed by Oakland Police after a firefight. Eldridge Cleaver was with him and was wounded. The actual events of that night are muddy at best. Different stories from involved parties can be found at here (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/panthers/hutton.htm).

A park in Oakland, California, United States, has been named after him.

Categories: Black Panther Party members

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A Huey P. Newton Story - People - Bobby Hutton \| PBS (228 words)
	Bobby Hutton was shot more than twelve times after he had already surrendered and stripped down to his underwear to prove he was not armed.
	Hutton leads 26 Black Panthers in a march on the State Capitol in Sacramento to protest the new gun bill and all are arrested.
	Bobby Hutton is killed during a shootout with police in Oakland.

Bobby Hutton (58 words)
	Bobby Hutton was a young member of the Black Panther Party.
	He was shot by Oakland Police after a firefight in 1969, after Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Eldridge Cleaver was present at the killing, and reports that Bobby was unarmed and naked at the time of the killing.

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