
Barack
Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he
campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader
who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney
General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers’ “Minister of War,” Najee
Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers
with AK-47’s and then mocking their widows.
Questions were raised about the possible motives of the
Obama administration in its infamous decision to drop the prosecution of the Panthers for voter intimidation.
