{"id":7403,"date":"2011-06-06T16:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2011-06-06T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:00:23","slug":"former-black-panther-leader-dies-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7403","title":{"rendered":"Former Black Panther Leader Dies At 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Former Black Panther Party leader <strong>Elmer &#8220;Geronimo&#8221; Pratt<\/strong>, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, has died. He was 63.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pratt<\/strong> died at his home in a small village in Tanzania, where he had lived for at least half a decade, lawyer<strong> Stuart Hanlon<\/strong>, who helped <strong>Pratt<\/strong> win his freedom, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hanlon <\/strong>said he learned of <strong>Pratt&#8217;s<\/strong> death through the former activist&#8217;s family members. He did not know what caused <strong>Pratt&#8217;s<\/strong> death, but said he had suffered from high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hanlon<\/strong> said <strong>Pratt<\/strong> refused to carry any resentment about his treatment by the legal system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pratt<\/strong> had no anger, he had no bitterness, and he had no desire for revenge. He wanted to resume his life and have children,&#8221; <strong>Hanlon<\/strong> said. &#8220;He would never look back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Elmer &#8220;Geronimo&#8221; Pratt, flanked by his daughter, Shona, wipes his brow as he faces reporters after he was released on bail in Santa Ana, CA in this June 10,1997 photo. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer &#8220;Geronimo&#8221; Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, has died. He was 63. Pratt died at his home in a small village in Tanzania, where he had lived for at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}