I’ve not seen any numbers for their total but King Shabazz is the leader of the Philadelphia chapter.
Malik Shabazz is their national leader and they have chapters in different cities so they number a lot more than what we see on TV about this incident.
The New Black Panther Party is essentially a “phone-booth” operation, i.e. their local memberships can each fit into a phone booth.
You never see more than about a dozen thugs at any one rally, often no more than 3-4. The media has built them up to something that they are not, large and legitimate.
The bulk of their members are the marxist “lumpenproletariat” that Marx, Engels, and Lenin so loved, the lowest of the low in society, those with the least to lose in a violent revolution, and those the most likely to be the cannonfodder for the communists.
If you check the records of the old marxist BPP leaders and members from the 60’s-70’s, they too, with a few exceptions, were from the lumpenproletariat ranks, the ones William Kunstler wanted to keep on the streets.
This new bunch is even more psychotic and stupidly vocal. Huey Newton would never have made the mistakes Shabbaz and Shabbaz have made. Malik even has a law degree from Howard University. Says a lot about their law school, eh?