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Aging Freedom Fighter Assaulted by Prison Guards
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
04 Oct 2017
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Herman Bell, the 69 year-old former Black Panther, was “savagely” attacked by New York state prison guards, last month. According to Jihad Abdulmumit, a former political prisoner and chairman of the National Jericho Movement, Bell had not been written up for misconduct in the past 20 years, and was expecting a “contact visit” from his wife the week he was attacked. Abdulmumit asked: “Why would he, in some secluded part of the prison yard, attack a correctional officer? It flies in the face of logic.”

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