Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji-Jaga, affectionately known as "G", was a major figure in the Black Liberation Struggle. Geronimo was a member of the Black Panther Party and spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Geronimo passed away in 2011.
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![Geronimo Pratt Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In this biography/interview of Pratt, Lisa Rudman gives insight on what it has been like for Geronimo Pratt and his last eighteen years in prison. Pratt had spent three years in Vietnam after high school where he discovered that the way soldiers treated people over in Vietnam was the same way police had treated people of the black community. Pratt was a victim of the cointellpro, where the FBI’s goals where to prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups and to prevent the rise of a masiah that would unify the militant black national movement. While over in Vietnam, Pratt was sprayed by a chemical that he still has side effects from and for some reason the prison refuses to treat him. In his case where Pratt was accused and convicted of killing a white women, Julio Butler who was the key witness in the case had committed perjury by saying that Pratt had admitted the murder to him when he was a paid informant that denied ever working with the police. Evidence to support this fact has surfaced since the conviction to prove that Pratt was framed and Pratt knows that he is being held for nothing other than his political beliefs. Pratt stated that “ they just don’t want strong black leaders in this country.”
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