On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

turned state's evidence and testified that he had been ordered to kill Rackley by Seale himself who had visited New Haven only hours before the murder. The evidence against Seale was slim as Seale was a last-minute replacement for Eldridge Cleaver and had been in Chicago for only two days of the convention. Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Addison-Wesley 1994.

Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22 1936) is an activist. He is known for co-founding the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton.