Leonard Peltier folk activists were placed on released from Florida prison Tuesday based on the former President Joe Biden, the Prime Minister’s sentence for murders of the two FBI agent, a decision that was thrown out to Peltiere, while competing law enforcement officers who believe in his guilt.
In almost half a century, Peltier’s prison symbolized System injustice For Indians across the country who believe in their innocence. The decision on release at the 80-year-old House detention was celebrated by supporters.
“He represents every person that a police officer was profiled by, whether his children harassed in school,” said Nick Estes, a professor of American Indian studies at the University of Mineux, Tribe, who advocated for Peltier’s edition.
But in the last minute move as the office left the office also requested criticism from those who say Peltier is guilty, including Former Director of FBI Christopher WRAYWho called him “a carnival killer” in the private letter of the Bisen that was obtained by an associate printing.
“Giving Peltiere Any relief from his belief or sentence is completely unjustifiably and would be an Afstront to the rule of law,” wray wrote.
Commutation was not a pardon for crimes committed, something Peltier’s advocates had hoped for always kept his innocence.
Peltier, registered member of the Chippew mountain belt, on the North Dakota, was active in the American Indian Movement, which was fighting for home American rights and tribal self-determination in the 1960s.
Group grabbed the headlines 1969. When activists were occupied by the former Alcatraz island in San Francisco bay, and again in 1972, when presidential candidates with a list of requests, including the renovation of tribal land. After they were ignored, they seized the seat of the Indian Job Bureau.
Since then, in a group, the FBI supervision and harassment under the covert program that tried to disrupt activism and was exposed in 1975. years.
Peltier’s condemnation arises from the conflict of the same year on the Indian Booking of Sioux in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in which the FBI FBI agents were killed by Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. According to the FBI, the agents were there to serve order for the arrest for robbery and attack with dangerous weapons.
Prosecutors held at the trial that Peltier both agents in the head in his head in his head. Peltier admitted that he attended and fired a gun on a distance, but he said he was fired in self-defense. The woman who claimed that she saw Peltier shooting agents later raised her testimony, saying it was forced.
He was convicted of two first-degree murder points and given two consecutive criminal punishment.
Two other members of the movement, SufiCansant Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, were released on the basis of self-defense.
Peltier is denied a conditional person recently as jul And he had no right to reconsider him by 2026. years.
“Leonard Peltier” edition is a real thing to be given serious and current concerns about the fairness of its trial, its almost 50 years behind the bars, his health, “said Paul O’Brien, Executive Director with Amnesty International USA In the statement. “While we greet his release from prison, he should not be limited to home closure.”
The prominent Indian American groups such as the American Indical Congress invited to Peltier’s edition for decades, and Amnesty International considered him a political prisoner. Featured supporters include South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Coretta Scott King, actor and director Robert Redford and Pete Seeger musicians, Harry Belafonte and Jackson Browne.
The generations of indigenous activists and leaders lobbied several presidents for Peltier Pardon. Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo Lagoon and the First Invertiamers for the Maintenance of the Secretary, praised Biden’s decision.
“I am grateful that Leonard can go home to his family now,” said 20. January in Post on Social Platform X. “I’m applauding the President Biden for this action and understand what that means Indian Earth.”
As a young child, Peltier was taken from his family and sent to UA boarding. Thousands of indigenous children in the decade have faced the same destiny, and were in many cases exposed to system physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
“He didn’t really have a home since he was taken to the entrance school,” Nick Tilsen said, who was committed to Peltier’s release since he was a teenager and is the CEO of the NDN collective group-based advocacy South Dakota. “So it’s excited to be at home and paint and do grandmothers around.”
2025-02-18 07:44:00
