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Morris White

Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Washington
Support
Black Panther Party
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Biography

Seattle Black Panther Party member arrested and charged with false solicitation, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest while selling The Black Panther and running the Free Breakfast program; The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.19 (1976) reports the charges were cleared on appeal after an officer admitted arresting him to make him change his soliciting. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v14 no.19; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]

Case

Charges: Solicitation; disorderly conduct; resisting arrest
Sentence: Seattle BPP member arrested while selling The Black Panther and running the Free Breakfast program; charges cleared on appeal after an officer admitted arresting him to make him change his soliciting. Verdict as recorded: No — charges cleared on appeal
Convicted: No