A killer redeemed, Kimbro dies at 74
Warren Kimbro, who spent decades giving back to the community he so famously stirred after killing a fellow Black Panther and prompting the headline-grabbing New Haven Black Panther trials, died late Tuesday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was 74 and lived in Hamden.
The cause was a heart attack, a hospital spokesman said.
Described by many as the epitome of redemption, Kimbro admitted to the 1969 killing of Alex Rackley, a fellow Black Panther who was suspected of being a police informant. The ensuing trial of Black Panther Party national leader Bobby Seale — whom...
he didn't JUST kill someone,
he tortured for several days, THEN killed
someone
and the YDN lionizes him???
WTF???
I read somewhere that if you haven't committed any wrong, then you can be the first to throw a rock....Warren never excused or glorified what he did; in fact he took it to his awaiting grave, but he dedicated his life trying to make a difference. To my previous commentors, what changes are you doing for people less fortunate? Or do you do like Oliver Wendell Holmes said, 'it's much easier to go home and say prayers than to take the blame for letting things grow into neglect and ruin'. We should ask ourselves, what have we done to make a change in our world...did we help someone who doesn't look like us or live in our community? Or do we continue on in our smug arrogance and think we've done enough. Yes. Warren killed a man--tortured a man, if you will--yes, the victim may have been someones son,friend or father, brother...but Warren committed his life to helping save someone's son, friend, father and brother as well. What committment are we doing to help those same individuals???
Even if you're right that Kimbro shouldn't be lionized, how does this story represent "the epitomie of racism" ?
Are you (and others like you) so desperate to point American society in a different direction concerning racism that ANY (preceived) mistake concerning the description of a black person is inherently racist now?
What kind of title is that for an article? That's outrageous. If I based the article on the title itself, I wouldn't have realized how much of a good man he is and how much his actions have improved the community. YDN, get on your game, start picking better titles next time for your articles.
He killed a man. He killed a human being. To get pardoned after 4 years unbelievable. To paint him a hero cmon-ridiculous. The epitome of racism here in this column.
The man he killed was someone's son, someone's brother someone's husband, someones dad, someone's friend. The man he killed had a right to live.
Do a story on the man who he killed to remember him.
Is the correspondednt so confused or so naive or so caught up in themselves to see that the man they paint a hero committed a crime which since humanity has existed is the ultimate in hate crimes, the ultimate in human rights abuse.
Wake up dear writer from your fog of self-rightousness, wake up.