These appear to be peaceful, elderly people - community gardener types. They could have had heart attacks from the FBI using flash bang devices and flying a drone into the house.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show...ded-by-the-fbi
St. Louis has a new basketball court. Its funders were raided by the FBI
St. Louis Public Radio | By Avery Lea Rogers, Danny Wicentowski
Published August 26, 2022 at 3:48 PM CDT
St. Louis has a brand-new basketball court. Created as an effort of the African People’s Socialist Party and its affiliate groups, the court comes complete with bleachers, water fountains, lighting for evening pickup games and an elaborate mural by St. Louis artist Jamie Bonfiglio.
But before the hoops were even installed, the African People’s Socialist Party became embroiled in controversy. In the early morning hours of July 29, the group’s headquarters in St. Louis and St. Petersburg, Florida, were both raided by the FBI.
During the raid, FBI agents breached the door of a residence in south St. Louis that doubles as an Uhuru Center, also run by the African People’s Socialist Party. The group’s leaders, Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela, live in the same property. The couple was just starting their day when the raid commenced.
For Ona Zené, the raid brought up memories of the FBI’s operations against the leaders of the civil rights movement, including the 1969 FBI raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
“It was horrific,” Ona Zené told St. Louis on the Air, describing the raid on her home in St. Louis. “When I reached the bottom of the stairs, it was like a war zone. I thought that they were gonna kill us. … I just thought about Fred Hampton, how they went in his home and murdered him. And I was just thinking that they're going to kill [Omali]. They're gonna kill him.”...
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show...ded-by-the-fbi
St. Louis has a new basketball court. Its funders were raided by the FBI
St. Louis Public Radio | By Avery Lea Rogers, Danny Wicentowski
Published August 26, 2022 at 3:48 PM CDT
St. Louis has a brand-new basketball court. Created as an effort of the African People’s Socialist Party and its affiliate groups, the court comes complete with bleachers, water fountains, lighting for evening pickup games and an elaborate mural by St. Louis artist Jamie Bonfiglio.
But before the hoops were even installed, the African People’s Socialist Party became embroiled in controversy. In the early morning hours of July 29, the group’s headquarters in St. Louis and St. Petersburg, Florida, were both raided by the FBI.
During the raid, FBI agents breached the door of a residence in south St. Louis that doubles as an Uhuru Center, also run by the African People’s Socialist Party. The group’s leaders, Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela, live in the same property. The couple was just starting their day when the raid commenced.
For Ona Zené, the raid brought up memories of the FBI’s operations against the leaders of the civil rights movement, including the 1969 FBI raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
“It was horrific,” Ona Zené told St. Louis on the Air, describing the raid on her home in St. Louis. “When I reached the bottom of the stairs, it was like a war zone. I thought that they were gonna kill us. … I just thought about Fred Hampton, how they went in his home and murdered him. And I was just thinking that they're going to kill [Omali]. They're gonna kill him.”...
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