It's the right thing to do
https://www.change.org/p/free-leona...e-president-to-grant-leonard-peltier-clemency
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Obama needs to pardon Leonard peltier
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The pine ridge reservation was under constant attack, the FBI was at a minimum complicit in murder before there was a shootout with members of the American Indian movement. Two federal agents were killed and arrests were made. I'm glossing over a lot of nuance here but the trial for peltier had many inconsistencies and he remains in jail despite public acknowledgement of a misdeeds by prosecutors.
I read a little about it after seeing this post. If I read it right he admitted to taking part in a gun battle in which the two FBI agents were killed but that he himself didn't execute them?
Incidentally my dad grew up in Bennett County, SD which is right next to the Pine Ridge reservation. He said some of the Sioux kids would come to HS unable to speak English as they only spoke the Sioux language at home. We've visited up there several times. The PineRidge reservation is the poorest part of the US I've ever seen, poorer than any inner city I'm familiar with. It's definitely not like OK.
Incidentally my dad grew up in Bennett County, SD which is right next to the Pine Ridge reservation. He said some of the Sioux kids would come to HS unable to speak English as they only spoke the Sioux language at home. We've visited up there several times. The PineRidge reservation is the poorest part of the US I've ever seen, poorer than any inner city I'm familiar with. It's definitely not like OK.
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I don't know innocence or guilt but I do know that AIM was a very militant group so there might be more involved than what the media would like to promote.
