| Summary: | Flier calling on citizens to attend an open public hearing "Monday, May 21" on police misconduct in Oakland in response to the murder of 15 year old Melvin Black by Oakland Police in 1979. Black was "shot 12 times in the back by three Oakland police officers", "the youth had no weapon", the district attorney "ruled the murder 'justifiable homicide'", but the three police officers are "still on the job drawing their salaries." Forensic reports concurred with the statements made by the Panthers, contra the police narrative that he was pointing a weapon at them, and this event was a public outrage and the City of Oakland settled in a civil suit brought forth by Black's mother.
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