"SAN FRANCISCO --
An urgent bulletin is going out to law enforcement Wednesday,
warning of a new threat of attacks against officers on the street and in
prisons. It has to do with what's called Black August. A reporter for KGO-TV - KABC's sister station in San Francisco - obtained the bulletin from a law enforcement source. The
bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Sacramento Intelligence
Unit and the FBI's National Gang Intelligence Center warns of increased
risk for violence against prison guards and police officers during Black
August. The prison gang Black Guerilla Family started Black August in the 1970s to honor fallen members. One
of the most prominent, Hugo Pinell, served 46 years in solitary
confinement after a San Francisco rape conviction, and after killing a
prison guard and slashing the throats of two other guards who survived
during an escape attempt in 1971. Former San Quentin inmate Jerry
Elster remembers Pinell as a freedom fighter. "When I went to prison at
20 years old, there was somebody there to remind me not to compromise
my integrity," Elster said. Last summer, just 12 days after
corrections finally released Pinell from solitary, he was stabbed to
death in a riot at State Prison Sacramento. The bulletin says the Black Guerilla Family believes state prisons worked with the Aryan Brotherhood to kill Pinell..."Seems funny they picked a specific month...can they give us time and day as well?
If you're ever wondering why police are so difficult to Black folk...this is a taste of why.
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