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...June 6, Stokeley Carmichael announced from exile in Africa that he was resigning as Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party because of the group's policy of making alliances, with white radical groups. In New York, the proceedings against 21 Panthers allegedly involved in a bomb plot continued. On July 7, George F. McGrath, New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants, as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment...
...same day, Eldridge Cleaver, from his exile in Algiers, denounced Carmichael's contention that black revolutionaries should seek only to ally with non-white, third world people. "Suffering is color-blind," Cleaver said...
After his release, Sams drifted for a few years, then joined the Black Panther Party, serving for a while as bodyguard to Stokely Carmichael. The New York Times, March 22, 1970, contains this description of Sams...
...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler.... They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
...expelled once from the Party for stabbing a fellow Panther, but Stokely Carmichael used his influence to get him readmitted. Carmichael says that he learned that Sams was a police agent early in May 1969, but was unable to communicate this information from Africa to the Panther leadership...