We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

An augmented fourteen-man team of the SAO — Special Prosecutions Unit — was organized for a pre-dawn raid armed with a warrant for illegal weapons. It was there that they offered him a position on the Central Committee as the chief of staff and asked him to serve as the national spokesman for the BPP. He joined the Party and quickly rose in the organization becoming Director of Chapter security and Hampton's bodyguard.

Fred Hampton (August 30 1948 – December 4 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Hampton’s murder was chronicled in the 1971 documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton as well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize.