Michael Zinzun (February 14, 1949 – July 9, 2006) was an African American Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist .

[1][2][3] His father died when he was eight at which point his mother sent him to live with an aunt in Pasadena, California, where he graduated from high school.

"[4] In 1974, he joined Los Angeles-area anti-police brutality activists B. Kwaku Duren and Anthony Thigpenn to form the Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA).

[citation needed] The techniques used by the LAPD in spying on and undermining the organization closely resembled those used by the FBI COINTELPRO program.

During his campaign the City of Los Angeles and an assistant chief of the LAPD disseminated information that falsely claimed that Zinzun was the subject of investigation by the department's anti-terrorism division.

Topics of shows included wounds inflicted by the Los Angeles Police Department K-9 corps, the Iran–Contra affair and CIA connection to cocaine shipments into U.S. communities, apartheid in South Africa, the founding of Namibia, the political atmosphere in Haiti with guest commentator Ossie Davis, conflicts between black people and Latinos, and black-against-black gang issues.

During the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King decision, Zinzun was down among the burning buildings, on the streets, at the center of the event capturing rare video footage of rioters looting stores.