Blacks, charging police with brutality and racism, are increasingly strident in demanding an end to both.
On March 3, 1991, Rodney King, a black motorist, was severely beaten by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. Captured on video, the beating came during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated.
On April 29, 1992, the jury acquitted the officers of assault. The verdict touched off six days of rioting, resulting in 63 deaths, 2,383 injuries, more than 7,000 fires, damage to 3,100 businesses, and nearly $1 billion in financial losses.
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a black man, was choked to death in Staten Island by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. His “crime”: Selling single cigarettes without a tax stamp.
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a white high school dropout, gunned down three black men and six black women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
And on May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a part-time security guard, was murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds.
Nationwide rioting erupted, and at least 200 cities imposed curfews. At least 27 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 62,000 National Guard troops in response to the protests.
Then-President Donald Trump, frightened by protests in Washington, D.C., disappeared into the White House bunker. Later, he ordered U.S. Park police to clear nearby Lafayette Park of a peaceful demonstration so he could stage a photo-op at St. John’s Church.
But blacks have not been the only victims of brutality by racist police or vigilantes.
Fifty years ago, whites—not blacks—-were the targets of black men intent on waging a race war.
From October 20, 1973 to April 20, 1974, San Francisco was rocked by a series of random, brutal attacks against whites. The assailant was at first thought to be a lone black gunman.
The toll finally reached 16 murders, five woundings, one rape, and the attempted kidnapping of three children.
The rampage, however, was not limited to San Francisco. Throughout California—from Bakersfield to San Diego—at least 93 other whites were murdered, according to later police investigations.
The killing spree did not end until May 1, 1974, with a surprise raid by heavily-armed San Francisco police.
What follows is an inside account of the “Zebra” death cult, as depicted through the grand jury testimony of the star witness against the killers: Anthony C. Harris.
At 28, Harris was a fifth-dan kung-fu expert who always dressed well and spoke softly. He also had firsthand knowledge of the “Zebra murders.”
Anthony Harris
Born in Long Beach, California, in 1946, Anthony Cornelius Harris got as far as the sixth grade. He clashed often with police and, on January 3, 1969, he was convicted for assaulting a policeman.
He was released from prison in May, 1970, when he won a reversal of his sentence at the California Supreme Court.
But he was once again arrested and convicted, in 1971, of second-degree burglary in Los Angeles. For this, he drew a sentence at San Quentin prison.
And he also met two of the future “Zebra” killers: Manuel Moore and Jessie Lee Cooks.
Cooks had been convicted of robbery; Moore had been sent to prison for burglary. Both wanted Harris, a fifth-dan kung-fu expert, to teach them the martial arts.
Cooks wanted to learn kung-fu so he could kill whites “because they had castrated and killed our ancestors and stomped our babies’ heads in.”
While an inmate at San Quentin prison, Harris became a devout member of the Nation of Islam.
At that time, the spiritual leader of the Nation was Elijah Muhammad, who preached a gospel of black separatism and superiority. Muhammad taught that whites were literally the incarnation of evil, a race of “blue-eyed devils.”
Elijah Muhammed
To test the worthiness of His Chosen Black People, proclaimed Muhammad, Allah had allowed their 400-year persecution by these “bleached-out, grafted snakes.”
But that great testing period would soon come to its end. Then would follow the literal, heaven-sent destruction of all whites. At the conclusion of this divine slaughter, Allah would create a paradise earth for His Chosen Black People.
Harris, Moore and Cooks had a conversation in the temporary Muslim temple in the prison–about “killing people and cutting their heads off—just white people,” Harris later testified in court.
After Harris was paroled on October 15, 1973, he drifted into San Francisco. There he made a new friend—Larry Craig Green, who helped him into a job at the Black Self-Help, a Muslim-owned, furniture-moving company in the city.
Yet another new friend he made there was J.C. Simon.
Soon he was reunited with Jessie Cooks, who had been paroled in July. The release of Manuel Moore followed in November—as did his own arrival in San Francisco.
In September or October, 1973, Harris and 12 to 13 other Muslims—including Simon, Cooks and Green—et at J.C. Simon’s San Francisco apartment.
“They asked me,” Harris later testified, “was I able to kill anyone? Did I have my mind together? They wanted me to work in the [Muslim] temple” as a kung-fu instructor.
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WHEN BLACKS SLAUGHTERED WHITES: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Politics, Social commentary on April 15, 2024 at 1:34 amBlacks, charging police with brutality and racism, are increasingly strident in demanding an end to both.
On March 3, 1991, Rodney King, a black motorist, was severely beaten by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. Captured on video, the beating came during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated.
On April 29, 1992, the jury acquitted the officers of assault. The verdict touched off six days of rioting, resulting in 63 deaths, 2,383 injuries, more than 7,000 fires, damage to 3,100 businesses, and nearly $1 billion in financial losses.
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a black man, was choked to death in Staten Island by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. His “crime”: Selling single cigarettes without a tax stamp.
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a white high school dropout, gunned down three black men and six black women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
And on May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a part-time security guard, was murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds.
Nationwide rioting erupted, and at least 200 cities imposed curfews. At least 27 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 62,000 National Guard troops in response to the protests.
Then-President Donald Trump, frightened by protests in Washington, D.C., disappeared into the White House bunker. Later, he ordered U.S. Park police to clear nearby Lafayette Park of a peaceful demonstration so he could stage a photo-op at St. John’s Church.
But blacks have not been the only victims of brutality by racist police or vigilantes.
Fifty years ago, whites—not blacks—-were the targets of black men intent on waging a race war.
From October 20, 1973 to April 20, 1974, San Francisco was rocked by a series of random, brutal attacks against whites. The assailant was at first thought to be a lone black gunman.
The toll finally reached 16 murders, five woundings, one rape, and the attempted kidnapping of three children.
The rampage, however, was not limited to San Francisco. Throughout California—from Bakersfield to San Diego—at least 93 other whites were murdered, according to later police investigations.
The killing spree did not end until May 1, 1974, with a surprise raid by heavily-armed San Francisco police.
What follows is an inside account of the “Zebra” death cult, as depicted through the grand jury testimony of the star witness against the killers: Anthony C. Harris.
At 28, Harris was a fifth-dan kung-fu expert who always dressed well and spoke softly. He also had firsthand knowledge of the “Zebra murders.”
Anthony Harris
Born in Long Beach, California, in 1946, Anthony Cornelius Harris got as far as the sixth grade. He clashed often with police and, on January 3, 1969, he was convicted for assaulting a policeman.
He was released from prison in May, 1970, when he won a reversal of his sentence at the California Supreme Court.
But he was once again arrested and convicted, in 1971, of second-degree burglary in Los Angeles. For this, he drew a sentence at San Quentin prison.
And he also met two of the future “Zebra” killers: Manuel Moore and Jessie Lee Cooks.
Cooks had been convicted of robbery; Moore had been sent to prison for burglary. Both wanted Harris, a fifth-dan kung-fu expert, to teach them the martial arts.
Cooks wanted to learn kung-fu so he could kill whites “because they had castrated and killed our ancestors and stomped our babies’ heads in.”
While an inmate at San Quentin prison, Harris became a devout member of the Nation of Islam.
At that time, the spiritual leader of the Nation was Elijah Muhammad, who preached a gospel of black separatism and superiority. Muhammad taught that whites were literally the incarnation of evil, a race of “blue-eyed devils.”
Elijah Muhammed
To test the worthiness of His Chosen Black People, proclaimed Muhammad, Allah had allowed their 400-year persecution by these “bleached-out, grafted snakes.”
But that great testing period would soon come to its end. Then would follow the literal, heaven-sent destruction of all whites. At the conclusion of this divine slaughter, Allah would create a paradise earth for His Chosen Black People.
Harris, Moore and Cooks had a conversation in the temporary Muslim temple in the prison–about “killing people and cutting their heads off—just white people,” Harris later testified in court.
After Harris was paroled on October 15, 1973, he drifted into San Francisco. There he made a new friend—Larry Craig Green, who helped him into a job at the Black Self-Help, a Muslim-owned, furniture-moving company in the city.
Yet another new friend he made there was J.C. Simon.
Soon he was reunited with Jessie Cooks, who had been paroled in July. The release of Manuel Moore followed in November—as did his own arrival in San Francisco.
In September or October, 1973, Harris and 12 to 13 other Muslims—including Simon, Cooks and Green—et at J.C. Simon’s San Francisco apartment.
“They asked me,” Harris later testified, “was I able to kill anyone? Did I have my mind together? They wanted me to work in the [Muslim] temple” as a kung-fu instructor.
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