Police Brutality / Individual record
Mark Clark
Black Panther member Mark Clark, 22, was killed alongside Fred Hampton during a December 4, 1969 raid by Chicago police.
- Record ID
- PB-005
- Incident date
- December 4, 1969
- Date of death
- December 4, 1969
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Category
- Police raid shooting
What happened
Clark was among the nine Panthers in the West Monroe Street apartment when officers arrived with a search warrant before dawn. The raid left him and Fred Hampton dead and four other Panthers wounded. The surviving occupants and the men's families pursued civil litigation alleging an unlawful, politically motivated attack; federal appellate proceedings recorded the raid and the subsequent criminal and civil investigations.
Investigation & findings
The families of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton and the other plaintiffs were parties to the landmark federal civil-rights litigation and 1982 settlement of approximately $1.85 million.
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- Historical source-derived record, pre-2015
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Published historical compilation of Black people killed in police custody (1999–2014)SAGE journal / cited NAACP LDF memorial listing · 2016 · Secondary scholarly source