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The situation first came to a head in 1978, when police attempted to enforce a court order mandating move to vacate its house. move refused the order, and by August, police had laid siege to the house in an effort to drive a resource-strapped move out. On August 8, the efforts to remove move erupted in violence: 600 police officers used guns and fire hoses to drive the activists from the basement where they were hiding. Officer James Ramp was shot and killed in the melee; although Ramp was standing in front of the house and was shot from behind and even though move members were in the basement of the house, the nine adults inside were arrested, tried, and collectively sentenced to 30 to 100 years for Ramp’s death.
In addition to the murder of Panther activists, both leaders and rank-and-file activists found themselves facing trumped-up charges. 3 Let Freedom Ring Such repression bred a climate of fear and distrust internally, as well as a push toward clandestine armed struggle. Black communities had been increasingly in open revolt against the state, especially the police; there were hundreds of rebellions in cities across the country between 1964 and 1968. In that climate, several police officers were killed, and the government increasingly looked to blame Black Panther activists for any attack against police or, for that matter, white people in general.
Two years after Shakur’s escape, in October 1981, several people attempted to rob a Brink’s armored car in Nyack, New York, about 30 miles north of New York City. 6 million which, according to a communiqué issued two weeks later under the name Revolutionary Armed Task Force of the bla, was to have helped fund continued clandestine endeavors and other Black community programs. But the action went awry: a shootout near the Brink’s truck left a security guard dead, and two police officers were killed at a roadblock in an exchange of gunfire a few miles away, as the radicals attempted to flee.
