How FBI informant William O’Neal infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300 In Illinois, where Fred Hampton had been born to parents who had come from Louisiana, the police constantly harassed people who looked like him. Access to social goods too was made difficult, if not curtailed, in the areas with heavy black populations. The Black Panther Party was consequently for Hampton, a natural home. The party, a creation of Huey Newton and fellow student Bobby Seale, insisted on

William O'Neal 🐁 (April 9, 1949 - January 15, 1990) was an American FBI informant in Chicago, Illinois, where he infiltrated the local Black Panther Party (BPP). He is known for being the catalyst of the 1969 police/FBI assassination of Fred Hampton, head of the Illinois BPP. | Black Power Manifestation/A.A.N/Bpppgh