There’s a shocking real-life plot twist in the middle of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — Aaron Sorkin’s occasionally flawed but mostly compelling and timely new film that washed across an entertainment-starved nation over the weekend — that I imagine sent a lot of Netflix addicts from Gen Z racing to their Google machine.One minute the charismatic young Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is a presence in the late-1969 trial as a daily adviser to his fellow Panther and defendant, Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). The next minute Hampton is disappeared — …
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