8 arrested in 1971 cop-killing tied to Black Panthers

By MARCUS WOHLSEN,
The Associated Press

Jan 23, 2007 2:49 PM (41 mins ago)

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SAN FRANCISCO - Eight
men were arrested Tuesday in the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police
officer that authorities say was part of a black power group's
five-year effort to attack and kill law enforcement officers in San
Francisco and New York.

Police said all eight are
believed to be former members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent
offshoot of the Black Panther Party. The Aug. 29, 1971 shooting death
of Sgt. John V. Young, 51, at a San Francisco police station was one in
a series of attacks by BLA members on law enforcement officials on both
coasts, police said.

The attacks, carried out between 1968 and
1973, also included the bombing of a police funeral in San Francisco
and the slayings of two New York City police officers, as well as three
armed bank robberies, police said..............Read More