Joseph LeFevour was President of the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, Illinois during the 1960s. In 1966, he accused Civil Rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. of inciting violence in the city, saying "Wherever he goes, violence erupts." In 1969, he praised the police raid that killed Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, saying that the Black Panthers called on their members to kill whites and policemen.