Black Panther fugitive nabbed for 1969 crime - gets 30 days for shooting U.S. cop

[Mogly]

black panther Fugitive nabbed for 1969 crime
another nigga criminal has lived the good life in the COON's refuge ,now toronto is a cesspool of afros, towel heads and apes of the jungle

By crossing the border, Pannell was leaving his name behind in the United States, where he was wanted for the attempted murder of a police officer in 1969. He had skipped bail twice in Chicago before heading north

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...ol=968793972154

Sooo! They finally sedated, bagged and tagged the Vandalopanzee, huh? Thank God for that!!!

[Brewski]

.. and it looks like they're shipping him back to America, where he can be lionized by guilty, self-hating white people just as they did in Canada!

Click here for Google references to "Joseph Pannell", "Black Panther"

CTV.ca, 11/25/05: Man who allegedly shot U.S. cop to be extradited (complete article at link)

A Toronto judge ruled Friday that a man should be extradited to the U.S. to face attempted murder charges for a 35-year-old shooting.

Reputed former Black Panther Joseph Pannell is alleged to have shot and paralyzed Chicago police officer Terrance Knox.

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He's been want
ed in the U.S. since skipping bail on two occasions, the first time in 1971 and the second in 1973, when he fled to Canada.

Pannell, who went by the name Gary Freeman, had worked as a researcher with the Toronto Public Library for 13 years and had lived in Mississauga, for more than two decades.

After the ruling, his wife and four children held a protest outside the U.S. Consultate, directly across from the court house.

"We all have bleeding hearts right now, but this is not over," said Pannell's wife Natercia Coelho.

"Bleeding heart" Canadian miscegenist, Natercia Coelho


One of Coelho's four ugly mulatto
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lps, "Mace" Freeman
(all images from news link)

When the shooting occurred in 1969, Knox was patrolling high school grounds in the Kensington District of Chicago. The of
ficer stopped a 19-year-old on the street to ask him why he wasn't in school.

Pannell allegedly pulled out a 9 mm handgun and fired 13 times. Three shots struck Knox, severing an artery in his arm and leaving him partially paralyzed.

In the summer of 2004 American authorities started to catch-up with the suspected former Black Panther.

Investigators sent Pannell's fingerprints to Canada. After a check, authorities north of the border found a match. It came from a 1983 customs violation where Pannell failed to declare a camera he bought during a trip to the U.S.

It has not been proven that Pannell was a member of the militant black rights group.

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REF: Toronto Star, 11/25/05: Court orders fugitive extradited to U.S.

Joseph Pannell, alias Gary "Down-Low" Freeman, pictured [i]incognito[/
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Tell you what, Canada: KEEP your nigger and his noisy brood. There will NEVER be justice for officer Knox here in America, and we have enough niggers already!!!

[Dr William Pierce]

Compare: Faggot Nigger on Right



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[Brewski]

You're right, Dr. Pierce.. this nigger fugitive is a DEAD RINGER for David Alan Grier!!!

I thought that mug looked familar somehow, but I was thinking more of the faggot nigger in "Revenge of the Nerds", Lamar Latrelle!

"Clap your hands now"


Watch Lamar throw his Javelin!

[Whitebear]

Google search for +"Terrence Knox" +"Joseph Pannell" +white

Terrence Knox, a white Chicago police officer

[Rasp]

Nigger vows to "Fight the Power"

Mississauga nigger fights extradition

Joseph Pannell's last chance to stay in Canada instead of going south of the border to face allegations that he shot a Chicago police officer 38 years ago will come this summer.

Ontario court announced today that the 57-year-old Mississauga nigger will have an opportunity on July 6 to appeal decisions from a judge and the federal Ministry of Justice that order Pannell be extradited to the U.S. to face multiple charges.

Pannell and his family fear he won't receive a fair trial in the U.S. due to ongoing racial bias in the American judicial system, as documented by human rights organizations.

When Pannell was arrested in 1970, jail staff and black police officers warned him that he was in danger, and he was once shot in the leg by an unknown person while out on bail, Pannell's affidavit says.

However, the Ministry's ruling states there's no reason to believe Pannell's race will be an issue in American courts.

The father of four, who's facing three charges of aggravated battery and one of attempted murder in connection with the 1969 shooting of Chicago police officer Terrence Knox, remains in custody at the Toronto West Detention Centre in Etobicoke.

Pannell's lawyer, Julian Falconer, has long maintained his client acted in self-defence to save his life and was a victim, in the 1960s, of racist American policies and other "civil liberties atrocities."

Pannell worked as a Toronto library assistant prior to his arrest in 2004 by Canada's Immigration Task Force.

Pannell was initially arrested shortly after the 1969 shooting, but fled while on bail and has since lived in Canada.

Chicago police believe Pannell was a member of the Black Panthers, a revolutionary black nationalist movement founded in 1966.

The alleged incident involving Pannell, then 19, and Knox, 21 at the time of the shooting, came at a time when tensions between Chicago police and the city's black community were high, said Falconer.

Ontario court heard earlier that in addition to Knox's anticipated testimony, an eyewitness will identify Pannell as the shooter, when the case goes to trial.

The woman's testimony is just one part of the "strong case" of "overwhelming evidence" that American prosecutors have, according to Ontario prosecutor Nick Devlin.

In rejecting Pannell's bid for bail this past spring, Justice Paul Rouleau agreed the evidence held by American authorities is strong and suggests there is a "real possibility" that Pannell will be convicted.

[Rasp]

Canucks kick the nigger loose

Alleged Black Panther agrees to extradition in decade's old shooting

A Toronto librarian accused of shooting a Chicago policeman nearly 40 years ago - and whose legal fight to avoid extradition to the U.S. was set to go the Supreme Court of Canada - now says he is giving up and returning to face trial in his home country.

Joseph Pannell, an alleged Black Panther who fled the U.S. after being charged with wounding Chicago police officer Terrence Knox in a 1969 gun battle, was arrested in 2004 after American and Canadian authorities determined that Mississauga, Ont., resident Gary Freeman was the prime suspect in the cop-shooting decades earlier.



"My extradition fight has been first and foremost directed toward having some truth revealed about many things, perhaps most importantly an extradition process that remains a rubber stamp that denies fundamental human rights," Pannell, now 58, says in a statement posted at his website, freemandrum.org. "To that extent, it has succeeded. A continuation of a legal battle in Canada would aim to get the courts to acknowledge the truth and then to act accordingly. But our efforts thus far, and those of others in a similar situation, tell us that this isn't likely to happen.

"Instead, I have decided to abandon my Supreme Court challenge of the Ontario Court of Appeals decision. I will be returning to Chicago and will be incarcerated at the Cook County Jail until such time as we reach a final determination through the judicial process."

Pannell was originally ordered to return to the U.S. in 2005, and then again in 2006 by then justice minister Vic Toews.

In September, at the latest hearing in a three-year series of court efforts to fight the extradition, Pannell's lawyer John Norris argued that his client should not be sent back to the U.S. because "black men in the United States have been victims of persecution for centuries, and that includes the present day."



Norris could not be reached on Tuesday.

Pannell, who was 19 at the time of his alleged crime, and Knox, a rookie police officer in 1969, have different accounts of what happened on the day of the shooting.

Knox has said he stopped and was searching a suspicious individual when the young man pulled a gun and began shooting. Pannell has said he was acting in self-defence in an era of red-hot racial tension and rampant police brutality against Chicago's black citizens.

Each man ended up firing about a half-dozen shots. Knox's right arm was paralyzed by a bullet, and a severed artery had him close to death by the time he reached hospital.

Pannell eventually fled to Canada, spending nearly 20 years in Montreal - where he met his future wife, Natericia Coehlo, while studying at university - and later settling with his family in Toronto.

He was arrested in July 2004 outside the Toronto Reference Library, where both he and his wife worked.

Knox, in a victim impact statement filed in Canada, said: "Joseph Pannell has already avoided one fugitive warrant. We cannot let people get away with crimes like these, no matter when they occur.

In the statement on his website, Pannell says changes in the U.S. that portend greater racial harmony - including Barack Obama's strong chance of becoming the U.S. president - helped convince him to submit to the extradition order.

"I cannot ignore what is taking place," he wrote. "Nor do I want to. I desire to be part of what must be acknowledged as a defining moment in history. Ultimately, I know I have a responsibility to help create one nation out of a fractured past.

"I look forward to what I hope will be a dialogue to achieve a resolution in my 39-year-old case, one that is grounded in the spirit of peaceful conflict resolution."

[vorlos]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3749406.shtml

CHICAGO, Jan. 24, 2008

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Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, Black Panther party founders, shown here in this 1969 photo. Former Black Panther Joseph Coleman Pannell, now 58, could face trial for shooting a police officer outside a store in Chicago's South Side. (AP (file))



(CBS/AP) A former Black Panther Party member accused of shooting a police officer in 1969 and then fleeing to Canada wants to return to the United States to stand trial, his attorney says.

Chicago authorities accuse Joseph Coleman Pannell, now 58, of shooting Officer Terrence Knox after the officer stopped him for questioning outside a store in Chicago's South Side. Pannell was free on bond in that case in 1973 when he fled.

Pannell, who changed his name to Douglas Gary Freeman and was a library research assistant outside Toronto, has waived extradition and will return to Chicago within 30 days, his attorney, Neil Cohen, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pannell has been jailed since his 2004 arrest in a suburb of Toronto. A judge in 2005 ordered Pannell returned to Chicago to face trial on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery. But his lawyers appealed, saying Pannell feared for his life and would not get a fair trial in the U.S.

After the ruling, Pannell's wife and four children stood in protest outside the U.S. Consulate located across the street from the downtown courthouse.

"We all have bleeding hearts right now, but this is not over," said Pannell's wife, Natercia Coelho. "He came here because he feared for his life. What happened to him was wrong in '69, and what happened today is wrong."

In 2006, Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews denied Pannell's request. Pannell's attorneys mounted a last appeal of Toews' decision.

Knox was on patrol when he approached Pannell, then 19 and away without permission from the Navy, and asked why he was not inside a nearby high school.

Knox said he almost lost his right arm because of the bullet wounds, and his life was saved when a fellow police officer stuck a finger into his arm to stop the bleeding from a torn artery.

Pannell was arrested in 1971, skipped bail, then was re-arrested in 1973 and skipped bail again, according to court records.

Knox, 60, remains angry about the judges who twice freed Pannell on bail in the 1970s.

"My position is the same," said the retired officer, who lives in southwest suburban Orland Park. "I want the court system to do its job. If he is innocent I will shake his hand. If he is guilty, I will slam the door behind him and never look back."

Pannell, who had been fighting extradition, has changed his mind in part because of what he views as a different political climate in the United States, Cohen said.

[Chicago Hope]

Can he get a fair trial?
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=161677


T.O. librarian heads back to U.S. to take on cop force riddled with corruption
Sigcino Moyo
U.S. marshals are expected at the Don Jail in the next few dayso to pick up Gary Freeman, aka Joseph Pannell, alleged Black Panther and fugitive from U.S. justice.

Freeman, the librarian catapulted into the media glare when he was arrested by police in a very public display back in 2004, has recently given up his four-year legal fight to stay in Canada.

He will be shipped to Chicago, a city he left almost 40 years ago, according to U.S. authorities to escape charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery in the alleged shooting of police officer Terrence Knox.

Freeman writes on his website that he’s forgoing a Supreme Court challenge to his extradition in hopes of “dialogue to achieve a resolution in my 39-year-old case, one that is grounded in the spirit of peaceful conflict resolution.... If for no other reason than to allow for the healing of two families.”�”�

But whether Freeman’s chances at a fair shake south of the border are better now, as Canadian courts have suggested, than they would have been in the early 70s remains a huge question mark.

There’s a tantalizing possibility that a black man will be elected president for the first time in U.S. history. Groove on that as you will.

But the reality for a black man accused of shooting a white cop is that the shadow of judicial prejudice and systemic racism still looms large four decades after the FBI’s Counterintelpro first began rounding up black men for their political opinions south of the border.

Shocking (or not) as it may seem, a UN committee against torture has likened Chicago to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib in terms of the failure to prosecute or deal with evidence of police brutality.

Just last month, the People’s Law Office in Chicago wrangled a multi-million-dollar settlement in a series of cases exposing routine police torture and requisite cover-ups involving now deposed cop honcho Jon Burge and other Chicago law enforcement and government officials between 1971 and 1991.




Back in 2002, the Illinois attorney general’s office begrudgingly detailed complicity on the part of higher-ups, including states attorneys and judges, to keep the incidents hush-hush. Some 200 accused and former accused came forward during the probe to say they were beaten with rubber hoses, phone books and fists and forced to endure electric shocks, suffocation and mock executions at the hands of Chicago cops.

If we’re looking for examples of states where racial bias has been removed from most governmental practices, Illinois isn’t one, says G. Flint Taylor, founding partner of the People’s Law Office.

“Police brutality and police violence are in another crisis phase here,”�”� Taylor says. “There has been no change in the basic fabric. You bring this guy back to Chicago and he’s got a lot less chance of getting a fair trial.”�”�

For Freeman, the proverbial match thrown into this politically charged powder keg is the revelation that his accuser, Officer Knox, was named as a defendant in the historic 1974 Alli-ance to End Repression lawsuit against the Chicago police’s Subversive Activities Unit (also known as the Red Squad).

The squad, which routinely violated the Constitution as a matter of standard operating procedure, was found guilty in 1985 of infiltrating and disrupting lawful civic, political and religious orgs. Knox is listed as a Red Squad “control officer”�”� in court depositions.

Is it a stretch, then, to suggest that if Knox was on the prowl for Panthers when he stopped Freeman 39 years ago, there could have been more to the stop than Knox wanting to know why the 19-year-old Freeman “wasn’t in school”�”�?>

Do the differing accounts of the number of shots Freeman allegedly fired – seven in Knox’s supplemental record of the case, and 13 in his original victim impact statement, the latter used to procure Freeman’s 2004 arrest warrant – just indicate a lapse in memory?

Justice Marc Rosenberg of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that this “single inconsistency”�”� in the number of shots isn’t enough to send the case back for another hearing when weighed against the “totality”�”� of the case records, which possess “sufficient indicia of reliability.”�”�

But beyond all that, how can the American prosecutors make their case when physical evidence, including the gun, has been destroyed, some other records are MIA and key witnesses (all but Knox who took part in the arrest, seizure and forensic examination of the cold steel) are deceased?

The Extradition Act sets out that an order can be refused if “the request for extradition is made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing the person by reason of their race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, language, colour, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability or status.”�”�

The Court of Appeal found that the “purpose”�”� of extradition isn’t to punish Freeman because of his “race or colour.”�”�

But it could have considered the issue of “political opinion”�”� in the Chicago police’s insistence that Freeman was, although he denies it, a Black Panther party member.

Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge has taken up Knox’s cause. Anyone who attended one of the Freeman vigils may be interested to know that clicking on “Canadian Sympathizer Photos”�”� on the FOP site could link to your picture.

While that jousting goes on, reports in the U.S. press say a plea bargain may be afoot.

Freeman’s partner, Natercia Coelho, isn’t saying. But law enforcement officials in Chicago, still stinging from the torture charges, are under growing pressure to create at least the illusion of a departmental retool – especially after video of off-duty cops abusing their authority has created a PR nightmare for the Chi-town department.

A public peace between Freeman and Knox may just be the balm needed to fix it, or so the theory goes.

Says Coelho, “It’s difficult for us as a family. There has been a lot of pain over the last three and a half years. I still have the same fears. But at the same time, we think the time is right for him to go back.”�”�