That was one of the BP's self inflicted wounds that sped up their downfall. They let pretty much anybody join up and didn't vet anyone. The Black Panther-Vanguard documentary went into detail about this. It was literally too easy for the feds and local police departments to slide a rat-mole into their ranks
That was probably their greatest weakness, but it was also their greatest strength. The fact that they let anybody in made the Panthers very appealing. You had to be Muslim to be apart of NOI, many people felt that that to be Christian to follow King's movement, but anyone could be a Black Panther from the scholar to the street dude. The Panthers understood that there's strength in numbers and didn't care what you were as long as you were for the people.
He said he enjoyed it. One thing that stood out amongst the rest was how he saw how informants infiltrated the movement and how it parallels to today. Also got to talk with him about how King and other leaders had to be protected by our soldiers (a la Crowns) when they came into certain towns and again, how do we see parallels to today or not.
