The Black Panthers weren't "gang bangers" either! And they didn't go around shooting other black people over drug turf or engage in gang wars.
In the summer of 1969, the alliance between the Panthers and SNCC begins ripping apart. One of the main points of dispute is the inclusion of whites in the struggle for minority liberation, a dispute which is pushed into an open gun fight at the University of California in Los Angeles against the group US, led by Maulana Karenga, which leaves two Panthers dead.
On August 22, 1989, Huey Newton is shot dead on the streets of Oakland in a drug dispute.
As Eldidge Cleaver would later explain in an interview a year before his death: "As it was [the U.S. government] chopped off the head [of the Black liberation movement] and left the body there armed. That's why all these young bloods are out there now, they've got the rhetoric but are without the political direction... and they've got the guns."
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/