Elmer Geronimo Pratt Passes Away In Tanzania
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Former Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt died today at the age of 63.
According to his lawyer Stuart Hanlon:
“Pratt died at his home with his family, in a small village in Tanzania.”
Back in 1972 Pratt was convicted for the murder of Caroline Olsen, but Pratt always maintained his innocence claiming he was in Oakland for Black Panther meetings on the day Olsen was murdered.You see the government fears strong black leaders who opposed their tactics and culture of of abuse and suppression within the urban communities.
In 1997 Pratt’s lawyer Johnnie Cochran got his sentenced overturned on the grounds that the prosecution had concealed evidence that might exonerated the defendant. The evidence with-held from him during phis trial, was that he had been under government surveillance for over a year prior, and including that day. That surveilence proved he was hundreds of miles away when the murder was committed, and therefore could absolutely not have been convicted by him. Continue Reading…













