Biography
Walter “Toure” Pope was a Southern California Black Panther Party newspaper distribution manager. Safiya Bukhari’s memorial records that he joined the Party after being released from California Youth Authority confinement at Tracy. The reviewed account does not identify the original charge, admission date, release date or completed custody duration. He was killed by Los Angeles police on October 18, 1969, a date corroborated by an account reproduced in the February 17, 1971 Congressional Record.
Walter “Toure” Pope was a Southern California Black Panther Party newspaper distribution manager. Safiya Bukhari’s memorial records that he joined the Party after being released from California Youth Authority confinement at Tracy. The reviewed account does not identify the original charge, admission date, release date or completed custody duration. He was killed by Los Angeles police on October 18, 1969, a date corroborated by an account reproduced in the February 17, 1971 Congressional Record.
Congressional Record, February 17, 1971, printed page2759: contemporary corroboration of death date.
