On April 1, 1967 Denzil Dowell of North Richmond, California, was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies. When Kathleen Cleaver is asked by Stephen Henderson of PBS's American Black Journal in 2016 about the start of the Black Panther party, she says "... one of the things that is very parallel is that there were a lot of murders of young Black men who were unarmed, who were innocent, by police, in particular one that kinda got the Black Panther party started was a young man named Denzil Dowell, who was running away, shot in the back, and his mother got in touch with the Panthers, she said, 'No one will help us, no one will do anything.'" Later (at 5:50), Henderson asks Cleaver about Black Lives Matter forming out of the same issues, and Cleaver responds not with parallels but with contrasts.
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