Biography
Watani Tyehimba is a longtime activist of the New Afrikan Independence Movement and a founding member of the New Afrikan People's Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. A former United Parcel Service mechanic and father of three, he was jailed on August 21, 1986 for civil contempt after he refused to provide a photograph, fingerprints and handwriting samples to a federal grand jury investigating the Black liberation movement — part of the long inquiry into the October 1981 Brink's expropriation, in which prosecutors alleged he had helped harbor Mutulu Shakur and Cheri Dalton (Nehanda Abiodun). Held as a grand-jury resister rather than on any criminal conviction, he was released from federal custody on October 7, 1987
Confirmed endpoints and qualified civil order
The original report, physical page 4, was fully visually reviewed and names the judge. The official federal locator confirms the existing October 7, 1987 endpoint. The original page includes an identified portrait; the site's existing portrait is retained.
