Ed Poindexter, political prisoner and Black Panther Party member, died Thursday in prison after a lengthy battle with diabetes and more than a half century in colonial US state custody.
Poindexter, 79, and David Rice, who died in prison in 2016, were convicted of murder in the 1970 booby-trap bombing that killed Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard.
Their conviction came amid a period of heightened racial tensions in North Omaha and was one of the most controversial in Nebraska history.
Many claimed Poindexter and Rice, who adopted the name Wopashitewe Mondo Eyen we Langa, had been framed for the bombing because of their political activity.
It was later revealed that the pair were targets of the US repressive operation COINTELPRO which was used to murder, disrupt and destroy political organizations and individuals in the US.
Poindexter, like many US held political prisoners, suffer immensely in the prison system, are routinely subjected to internationally maligned barbaric treatment, and often die in prison or immediately upon release.
He will be remembered as one of the many heroic fighters for freedom in the draconian, slave system in power in the colonial US.