Biography
Vincent Robinson was a member of the Louisiana State Chapter of the Black Panther Party. In September 1971, while distributing literature with Herbert McGee in Leesville, Louisiana — about ten miles from the Fort Polk army base — he was arrested and charged with vagrancy, soliciting, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest, with bond set at $699. The two were held in a jail that had been condemned since 1942 and were threatened with beatings by guards. Documented in The Black Panther (October 30, 1971).
The contemporary Leesville report follows Vincent Robinson and his fellow Panther into their third day in jail, independently confirming confinement lasting more than twenty-four hours. It does not supply an exact release date or a completed custody total.
After his separate September 1971 Leesville detention, Robinson and Clarence Jones were arrested in October while distributing the newspaper in Covington. They were held in St. Tammany Parish Jail and released on bond. On November 3, Robinson was arrested again in New Orleans on a revived armed-robbery warrant while collecting donations for a community rally. The report also recalls an earlier six-month weapons sentence, without supplying its custody endpoints or proving a completed six-month total.
Original document 1248, PDF page 16; Original document 1248, PDF page 17.
