Biography
Clive Lisbon De Patten testified before a House subcommittee on October 8, 1970 that he was jailed in Des Moines on April 13, 1969 after objecting to police beating another person following a rally supporting the Black Panther breakfast program. He said he was beaten and hospitalized, and that his mother and brother were also jailed. He stated that he joined the Black Panther Party while in jail. These are his attributed firsthand statements; the hearing does not establish a charge, disposition, release date or completed detention total. Police Sergeant Robert Gladson gave a conflicting account of the confrontation, alleging unlawful assembly and resisting arrest, and reported a guilty plea with fine-or-jail penalties. Those alternatives are not counted as time actually served. Later committee testimony reports a separate October 1970 contempt imprisonment with daily work release, followed by a November 5 courtroom protest and further actual jail remand. Nominal terms are not treated as time served. In sworn testimony he gave his birthdate as October 25, 1950.
Clive Lisbon De Patten testified before a House subcommittee on October 8, 1970 that he was jailed in Des Moines on April 13, 1969 after objecting to police beating another person following a rally supporting the Black Panther breakfast program. He said he was beaten and hospitalized, and that his mother and brother were also jailed. He stated that he joined the Black Panther Party while in jail. These are his attributed firsthand statements; the hearing does not establish a charge, disposition, release date or completed detention total. Police Sergeant Robert Gladson gave a conflicting account of the confrontation, alleging unlawful assembly and resisting arrest, and reported a guilty plea with fine-or-jail penalties. Those alternatives are not counted as time actually served. Later committee testimony reports a separate October 1970 contempt imprisonment with daily work release, followed by a November 5 courtroom protest and further actual jail remand. Nominal terms are not treated as time served. In sworn testimony he gave his birthdate as October 25, 1950. Actual jailing personally reported in sworn testimony; no imposed term, release date or total actual custody established. Police testimony reports $50 or ten days and $25 or five days as alternatives; no additional fifteen-day actual custody total is inferred.
Bruce Fehn and Robert Jefferson’s historical study identifies Clive DePatten as later known as Kalonji Saadiq and reports that he died of heart failure on November 14, 1996, aged 46. It describes his later leadership of KUCB radio and advocacy before the Des Moines City Council. His previously verified sworn birthdate remains unchanged; age at death is not used to infer another birthdate. This is a later-life death, not a death in custody.
In De Patten v. Harrison, 185 N.W.2d 720 (Iowa 1971), the court describes DePatten’s November 5 evening appearance before Judge Ray Harrison and trial the following morning. It records the contempt adjudication and six-month sentence, and annuls certiorari on April 9, 1971. This supplies the November 6 sentencing date; it does not establish physical release or completed time served. The separate April 1969 and October 1970 cases remain distinct.
