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The headquarters of the White Panthers in Portland, Oregon were raided by the FBI on December 5, 1970. Two members of the group were arrested and accused of throwing a molotov cocktail through the window of a local Selective Service office.
White Panthers chapters in San Francisco and Berkeley remained active into the 1980s. In 1984, angry because then-Mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein proposed to ban handguns in the city, the San Francisco White Panthers mounted a successful petition drive that forced Feinstein into a recall election, which she won. Within the next year, the leaders of the local chapter had been jailed, effectively destroying the chapter.
Author and anarchist Mick Farren, a leader of the United Kingdom Underground, later founded the White Panthers, UK.
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