Cops, prison guards told to watch out for ‘Black August’ attacks

A prison gang started has called for violent attacks on street cops and prison workers, according to a law enforcement bulletin.

“Black August” began in the 1970s as an observance for fallen members of the “Black Guerilla Family,” a gang founded in San Quentin prison in 1966 by former Black Panther George Jackson.

First reports that the gang is threatening law enforcement officers in and out of prisons throughout the country came from a San Francisco ABC affiliate.

From the ABC7 report:

The prison gang Black Guerilla Family started Black August in the 1970s to honor fallen members.

One of the most prominent, Hugo Pinell, served 46 years in solitary confinement after a San Francisco rape conviction, and after killing a prison guard and slashing the throats of two other guards who survived during an escape attempt in 1971.

Former San Quentin inmate Jerry Elster remembers Pinell as a freedom fighter. “When I went to prison at 20 years old, there was somebody there to remind me not to compromise my integrity,” said Elster, who currently works as the healing justice coordinator for American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization devoted to service, development and peace programs throughout the world.

Last summer, just 12 days after corrections finally released Pinell from solitary, he was stabbed to death in a riot at State Prison Sacramento.

The bulletin says the Black Guerilla Family believes state prisons worked with the Aryan Brotherhood to kill Pinell.

According to the bulletin, the gang spoke of a “2-for-1 kill policy.” FBI officials also warned that gang members outside of prisons could target police officers “parked in alleys or side streets.”

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